“My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.”

“Some people never find itSome only pretendBut I just want to liveHappily ever after, now and then”

“I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.”

“I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.”

“I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases...”

“Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends.If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.”

“later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.”