I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
A girl phoned me the other day and said. . . 'Come on over, there's nobody home. ' I went over. Nobody was home.
I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.
It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.