“I am willing to remain and play the man’s game if there are not enough boats for more than the women and children.”

Tell my wife I played the game straight out and to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim is a coward.

We’ve dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.

Now write this: ‘The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,’ and sign it ‘James Bond, 007.’

You feel like you and the boats are one, you feel that no obstacle will put up any more resistance than the water does to your oars, you feel that hard work and grit and mental toughness will always win it for you in the end.

They know they’ve won,” Carter guessed. “They’re making a show of it.” “Yes,” Amos said. “Well, let’s blow up the boats or something!” I said. Amos looked at me. “Is that your strategy, honestly?

Most of Set’s forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says demons are bright).

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of a buddy who did panic. But I was confident the boat would come back.

If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn’t lose focus. That made the difference.

Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.