"I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen - Jack London

"You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and you have refused to pay the price. Your life has been like a cabin where the fire is out and there are no blankets on the floor." He signaled to a slave to fill his glass, which he held aloft. "But I have lived. And I have been warm with life as you have never been warm. It is true, you shall live long. But the longest nights are the cold nights when a man shivers and lies awake. My nights have been short, but I have slept warm"

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.