← “If I ordered a general to flit from one flower to another like a butterfly, or to write a tragedy, or to change himself into a sea-bird, and the general didn’t obey the order he’d received, whose fault would it be, his or mine?” 🔊✎
← “It means I write the number of stars on a bit of paper. And then I lock that bit of paper in a drawer.” 🔊✎
← The sixth planet was ten times as big. It was inhabited by an old gentleman who wrote huge books. 🔊✎
← He asks them questions and he writes down what they say. 🔊✎
← Geographers start by writing down what explorers say in pencil. 🔊✎
← We write about eternal truths.” 🔊✎