The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.

There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.