What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

Sometimes life takes oreos. But we have to learn to deal with it.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

How much did Jim Morrison know?

I've won. Hurray! I don't have to go to school any more.

Simon Cowell and I are great friends and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.

The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life.

If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

Understanding transformed into secret means of action is splendid, wonderful, edifying and essentially dignifying.