Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.

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

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.