“It is far easier to launch oneself from a high place in the hope of sprouting wings, than it is to write a book. Yet once you've mastered it, you will be soaring higher than the birds.”
“A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.”
“But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.”
“It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.”
“A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights.”
“She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet.”