Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read