I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms.

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.

I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.

If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.

it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.