“Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK!”

“His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab. And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw benieath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg.”

“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.”

“Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.”

“There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!”

“To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.”