Think only what is right there, what is right under your nose to do. It's such a simple thing - that's why people can't do it.

In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.

I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.

And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

Voyages are accomplished inwardly.