Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.