If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

Never confuse movement with action.