We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.

All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.

Small sacrifices must be made.

A Baba Yaga never breaks a promise. Legs, yes. Hearts, occasionally. But never a promise.

I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.

I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they really need to hear the story again?

I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don't really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I've gotten to the point where I'm being offered stuff.

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.

It's like you can't even go on the radio anymore and condemn a whole subset of people to hell without getting some blowback.

All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.