Dessert is to a meal what a dress is to a woman.

I remember yoursaying: "make itor break it."neither happened anditwon't.

how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before the mast.

He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

You can only control what you can control.

I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one.