Doug Butchy

“any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“For I believe that much of a man’s character will be found betokened in his backbone.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“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

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