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On the Beach

«I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.»
«Is it a man walking on the beach, winking at the girls and looking for going to bed? Is it someone who wears a lot of gold chains and rings and sits at the bar? Because this is not me! I am very, very Latin, but not so much lover.»
«I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?»
«One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few»
«The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.»
«A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea»
«In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.»
«I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.»
«On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.»
«Shy traffickers, the dark Iberians come: / And on the beach undid his corded bales.»

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