• But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.

• It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

• man-of-war bird

• "How do you feel, fish?" he asked aloud. "I feel good and my left hand is better and I have food for a night and a day. Pull the boat, fish."

• "It is not bad," he said. "And pain does not matter to a man."

• Then the fish came alive, with his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty.

• He did not like to look at the fish anymore since he had been mutilated. When the fish had been hit it was as though he himself were hit.

• "But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

• Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.