Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.

The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

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

And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.