To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.

I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.