Local communities hold ancestral wisdom about marine life—we must listen before we innovate.

The writer's duty is to write with rigor, with honesty, and to never accept compromises.

To be a writer is to accept that you will always be alone with your thoughts.

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Don't be resigned to that. Break out.

To love is to risk being rewritten by another.