If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.