Every island to a child is a treasure island.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?