Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.

The art of writing is the art of doing what you think you're doing. This is not as simple as it sounds. It implies a very difficult undertaking: the necessity to think. And it implies the requirement to think out three separate, very hard problems: What is it you want to say? How are you going to say it? Have you really said it?

but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.

Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.

Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it.

Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all.