There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.

It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.