Doug Butchy

“I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul. I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“Why I do believe that’s old Jane Marple. Thought she was dead years ago. Looks a hundred.”
― Agatha Christie, At Bertram's Hotel

“for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

“Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter’s, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick