“Is the glory of heaven no perfecter in itself, but that it needs a foil of depression and ingloriousness in this world, to set it off?”

“Ultimately, touchingly, Adams delineates the ingloriousness that lay in the shadows of Wilbur and Orville's ingeniousness and vision.”

“Some critics felt that Starling had over-reached himself in trying to portray a society on the edge of anarchy in all its ingloriousness.”