Murder was a fascination as always.

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.

New York's perennial attraction was shopping.

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.

AH I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.

There will always be a easy path and a right path.

It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary. Film is forever.'

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.