Master of life, guardian of the shorelines, regulator of temperatures and heaving sculptor of mountains, the great ocean existed. - James A. Michener

The great writers, Conrad, Maugham and Melville, spent only a few years in the South Seas, but their memory of those waters was indestructible; for the nature of life in the islands commands attention to the vivid world and its even more vivid inhabitants.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions

There was an evil in the world which God was powerless to combat without the help of men; a mystical partnership was being offered, stunning in concept and in its power to elicit the best in life.