The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.