“Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system”

“It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.”

“This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.”

“Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?”

“There is a slight difference between collecting fifty wine labels and collecting fifty pinball machines.”

“You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.”

“They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh,the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave.”