I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote well. Then the glory of sail will return.

A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.

If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that's one of the things God made boats for- to wait in.

A small craft in the ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. The skipper's brain is the vessel's brain and he must give up his soul to her, regardless of his own feelings or inclinations.

The only way to see true reality is in solitude. One of the tragedies of human existence is that reality cannot be shared. What's real to you may not be to someone else.

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.

The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.

Everyone wanted answers I wasn't ready to give.

Free will is the liberty to choose what is right according to Gods law.

Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.

People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.