All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.