You will catch no birds with a club.
Fine feathers make fine birds.
Elephants are killed for their ivory, birds for their feathers.
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.
This Byrd wants a Wren.
A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person.
Young Noah: If you're a bird I'm a bird.
And so the bird was the end of the man, and the man was the beginning of the bird.
By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.
It is hard to catch birds with an empty hand.
One beats the bush, another catches the bird.
A good bird begins chirping while in the egg.
A golden cage does not feed the bird.
All birds will flock to a fruitful tree.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
A fine cage won't feed the bird.
