When I'm writing it's as if I'm the observer. It's as if that computer screen there -it used to be the typewriter - just kind of dissolves and there's this whirling tunnel of mist and there's a kind of proscenium arch, and then there are my characters, and they say what they say, and I laugh sometimes in surprise at what they say.
Richard BachJust be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well.
Richard BachThanks to you, I always am so happy. Now I want to give you all the happiness on your birthday.
Richard BachMy airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
Richard BachAnything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and weโre throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.
Richard BachYou will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isnโt flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesnโt have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.
Richard Bach