"Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings."

“I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world. ... I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.”

“Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds of worry, doubt, fear, lack and limitation. Choose to cultivate your inner garden!”

“Just do what you're supposed to.”

“All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.”

Source : William Bligh (2012). “Mutiny on the Bounty”, p.49, Courier Corporation

“Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.”

“Most of my stuff, I never really watch.”

Source : "Ted McGinley talks Happy Days, The West Wing, and being the "patron saint" of jumping the shark". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2012.

“As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”

“Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.”