If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.

It's all right to drill your crew, but why not drill the passengers.

He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.

They looked more like day laborers than seamen.

There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.

Murder was a fascination as always.

New York's perennial attraction was shopping.

I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.

During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.

My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.

My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim.

Why was everyone so interested in her now? When it was too late to change anything? What was the point?

If you can't be an author, be a book

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

While this is good and it stores up knowledge and power, at the same time there's a problem with it because it means that a person becomes more fixed.

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet.

Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.

Anytime you get men in glitter, it's a flamboyant occasion!

Distance is always helpful, and the fact that I'm a U.S. politics junkie helps a lot.

A thought once awakened does not again slumber.