“It is no less difficult to write a sentence in a recipe than sentences in Moby Dick. So you might as well write Moby Dick.”
“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.”
“Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board.”
“There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!”
“Optimists are those who go after Moby dick in a row boat with a bucket of tarter sauce.”
“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. (moby dick chap 29 p123)”