“When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.”
“If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff? ”
“Woods disguised as woods alive without end, and above them birds in flight play birds in flight.”
“We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.”
“I’m surprised there isn’t a jet airplane designed in the shape of a brick. Some people (aeronautical engineers) might say that’s because bricks aren’t aerodynamic. Yeah, right. I’d like to see someone make that claim as they watch a brick flying towards their face at a high velocity. ”
“That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.”