The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.