“The gull sees farthest who flies highest.”

— Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, 1970

About Richard Bach

Born 1936

American author of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" and "Illusions".

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”

“An old maxim says that a professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

“Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”