Reading 'Moby-Dick' helps you discover how to live.
There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.
Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.
I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing.
Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.
'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
I'd like to play the whale in 'Moby Dick.' If I keep eating, I may end up getting there.
I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.
When your Dad was the creator of 'Moby Dick' you kind of steer clear of getting compared in a solo-ing aspect.
The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.