My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.
There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.
To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader.
The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.
On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses.
There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well. If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in beetween.
Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man
I think humor and terror are very closely related.
Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be