“Life on earth means: the sprouting of wings.”

“They could no more reconcile to a mutually satisfying life than a donkey could sprout wings and fly.”

“Friendship is just love that has yet to sprout wings and take flight.”

“If I fall out, pull this ring? What happens then? I sprout wings and fly?" -Spader in "The Never War”

“What if the images of people sprouting wings are inaccurate, merely an attempt by the human mind to understand what it wasn't meant to comprehend?”

“Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.”