"For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, bu…"

"Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight — how to get from shore to food and back again."

"We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill."

"Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull’s life is so short, and with …"

"Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding."

"But the speed was power, and the speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty."

"If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroye…"

"The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of …"

"You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousan…"

"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other."