Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Shut your eyes and see.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has happened.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.

The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making.

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they lead.

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

We are stuck with technology when what we want is just stuff that works.