“A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.”
“The other day a patient told me that he had gotten into what was a very good college. 'It's not Harvard,' he said. 'Harvard's not Harvard either,' I answered.”
“The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?”
“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.”
“He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.”
“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long time with foreigners in South America.”