I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.
It's a great life, if you don't weaken.
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.