“Call me Ishmael.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’.”
“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.”
“Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.”
“Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they’re all designed to benefit the pupil—not the world - "Ishmael”
“If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael”