“That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.”

“...we are never old to ourselves. That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.”

“What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.”

“The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship”

“For myself, hand on heart, those things never bothered me. It is one of the graces of married life that for some magical reason we always look the same to each other. Even our friends never seem to grow old. What a boon that is, and never suspected by me when I was young. But I suppose, otherwise, what would we do? There has never been a person in an old people’s home that hasn’t looked around dubiously at the other inhabitants. They are the old ones, they are the club that no one wants to join. But we are never old to ourselves. That is because at close of day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.”

“Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. ”