The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art

There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

Only fools and passengers drink at sea.

Every ship should have a cat.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

You just go a little crazy, you know. Sometimes. And why? Well only because your soul is just too big for you, it flies away somehow.

It is not a first time in history that we have got people who have sold out and subverted the ideas for which they stood for in the past.

Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.

The ways of the mind are ancient, but you are timeless

[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

There's also really no way of knowing what Donald Trump is going to do - he's been sufficiently vague in his policy positions.