A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.

We can never cease to be ourselves.