Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.
I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
The great fish moved silently through the night water.
He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening.
Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.