“ A man is never lost at sea and it is a long island. ”
 Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1952). copy citation

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“You work now, fish, he thought. I'll take you at the turn. The sea had risen considerably. But it was a fair-weather breeze and he had to have it to get home. "I'll just steer south and west," he said. "A man is never lost at sea and it is a long island." It was on the third turn that he saw the fish first. He saw him first as a dark shadow that took so long to pass under the boat that he could not believe its length. "No," he said. "He can't be that big."” source