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I've always dreaded the sea - in fact, I get terribly seasick.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearing the seagulls, it had a real calming effect. But also, it was a mysterious thing - I remember wondering what was under those dark New England seas.

Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.

I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

Well, I am a giant pansy and freak out if seaweed touches my leg in the ocean.