
Thoughts on his first parachute jump in The Spirit of St Louis (1953)
Thoughts on his first parachute jump in The Spirit of St Louis (1953)
“There is danger in deep water, and danger is more real than beauty in a boy’s mind.”
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 50, section 2 (p. 661)
“Friends, we're hardly strangers at meeting danger.”
XII. 209 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.”
Source: John Mayer: Battle Studies
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“Love is beautiful only when you are secretly loved by a stranger.”
“Yesterday is safe,
Tomorrow's full of danger,
Yesterday's a face I know,
Tomorrow is a stranger.”
"A Spell for Midnight"