You Have To Be Eligible For Luck

It Takes Courage To Know When You Ought To Be Afraid.

A Poet Sees Things In Two Ways: First, As A Child Who Never Saw It Before, And Second, As A Dying Man Who Will Never See It Again.

Not Too Many People Work In A Job Where, Waiting Out There Are Three Or Four Hundred People Who Are Paid To Tear Apart What You've Done. And Often They Are Brighter Than You Are, Or They Know More About The Subject Than You Do, Or They Wish They Had Written A Book Themselves, Or Done A Lot Better. Or They Just Don't Like It! And You Have To Live With It.

When I Was A Child In The Navy During World War Ii, I Was Perennially Grateful To The Armed Services Libraries For Having On Hand A Good Supply Of Those Pocket Books, Which Were So Common In That Period. I Must Have Read A Couple Hundred Of Them, And They Did A Lot To Save My Sanity.

The Chief Character In This Narrative Is The Caribbean Sea, One Of The World's Most Alluring Bodies Of Water, A Rare Gem Among The Oceans, Defined By The Islands That Form A Chain Of Lovely Jewels To The North And East