"The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order."

"There is always risk, so learn to manage risk instead of avoid it."

"To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappear for a time; nor as if they had been ove…"

"What we don't let out traps us. We think, "No one else feels this way, I must be crazy." So we don't say anything. And we become enveloped by a deep loneliness, not knowing where our feelings come fro…"

"What between tipping the man who had brought us home, and paying for the broken sculls, and for having been out four hours and a half, it cost us a pretty considerable number of weeks’ pocket-money, t…"