Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canaary as a substitute for a husband.

Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.

Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.

Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.