New York's perennial attraction was shopping.

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.

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

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.

Someone who doesn’t know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.

The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life,

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.

Energy is the prime mover of all we see and know. You change the energy and your body has to respond.

Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

I personally know Donald Trump, and I know a lot of amazing really kind acts that he's done one-on-one with people. And the candidate that I see is not the person I know.

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.