“To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.”

“Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.”

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”

“Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.”

“A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.”

“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”

“Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tid...”

“And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, from from it; no one should make that mistake!”