It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea...
The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.
It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.
Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.
Don’t you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.
This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let’s go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.
The cat has complete emotional honesty – an attribute not often found in humans.
I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.
He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.
The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.
They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.
Everything that’s innocent to us is crazy to them.
The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.
Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.