Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.

- William Wharton

It occurs to me one evening as I'm feeding the birds that all I did was put two birds in the aviary, some food and water and nothing else and now the…

- William Wharton

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.

- William Wharton

Things come apart much easier than they go together.

- William Wharton

What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don't have to…

- William Wharton

Love is a combination of admiration, respect, and passion. If you have one of those going, that's par for the course. If you have two, you aren't qui…

- William Wharton

Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just s…

- William Wharton

The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to…

- William Wharton

People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the w…

- William Wharton