我们不是从祖先那里继承了海洋，而是从子孙那里借来的。

I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, ‘I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.’ What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor do the people who write these books.

"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."

The concept of progress is inseparable from the concept of catastrophe.