Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don't really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.

Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!

People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.

The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.

There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.

I let my drinking do the talking.