Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.
If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
It is the weather, not work, that wears out sails.
No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.
When you're on a boat, 15 nautical miles off the coast and you're with a bunch of fishermen, they don't give two shits about who you are.
