There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.

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.

Murder was a fascination as always.

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.

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

I fear death. I think I must learn to romanticize death so that I can cope with its brutal irreversible numbness...!

Sacred joy exists in any suffering.

But it's all right now.I learned my lesson well.You see, you can't please everyoneSo you've got to please yourself.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

I'm okay with multinational marriage, foreigners are also alright. Mixed blood babies are so pretty.

Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.

You can't allow someone's hate to dictate your life.

You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.