After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

Bad luck to your mother.

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

I hate him, too," she shivered. "I hate his damned suffering.

People may refer the sea as both feminine and masculine but I like to refer it as feminine because the moon effects the sea in the same way it does a women