Mike

“All thinking men are atheists.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.”
― John Barth

“I would rather have bowel surgery in the woods with a stick. If you are not stung or pronged to death in some unexpected manner, you may be fatally chomped by sharks or crocodiles, or carried helplessly out to sea by irresistible currents, or left to stagger to an unhappy death in the baking outback.”
― Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country