The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

What I'd like to be above all is a writer.

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!