The water in which one drowns is always an ocean.
Man is like a bubble of water on the ocean.
Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are the ocean…
Not all beaches are fun and sunscreen.
The weekends are too short for sleep!
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an ocean in a drop.
All water flows into the ocean or into the purse of the rich.
Better a drop of wisdom than an ocean of gold.
Though near shore, you're still in the ocean.
In the ocean, one does not need to sow water.
Don't sell the fish that is still swimming in the ocean.
I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.
There is no afterlife for wilted flowers like me.
I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity....
As close as we'd been when we were together, we were closer in our unraveling, telling each other everything at last, words that seemed to us might never have been spoken between two human beings before, so deep we went, saying everything that was be...
Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally I'd see their beauty and solemnity so plainly that I'd realize in a piercing way that my mother was right. That someday I would be grateful and that in fact I was...
It had been so silent in the wake of that commotion, a kind of potent silence that seemed to contain everything. The songs of the birds and the creak of the trees. The dying snow and the unseen gurgling water. The glimmering sun. The certain sky. The...
Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
...but fear of death gives us strength.
Adults follow paths. Children explore.
I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything.
