I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.

If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.

As a general rule, if anyone ever asks you to put stockings on a ninety-year old deceased Romanian woman with oedema, your answer should be no.

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

If redwoods are the backbone of California, oaks are of England.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

I don’t mind being alone either. The only problem is that if you’re always alone, you get lonely.

Anything simple always interests me.

When people are getting richer and richer but they're not actually producing anything, it can't end well.

I'm not like Madonna. I haven't changed my lilt in my voice.

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.