You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.
Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.
All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.
After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?
What can the will do when the heart commands?
A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.