Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

"The past never leaves us; we carry it in our eyes and in our voices."