You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.

Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual

For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.

Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.