“We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.”
“It would ’a’ been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft; for what you want, above all things, on a raft, is for everybody to be satisfied, and feel right and kind towards the others.”
“Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.”
“As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.”
“You are so in over your head that even a life raft can't keep you afloat.”
“Writing is like a raft with a slow leak; sometimes it floats, sometimes it doesn't.”