Category: Books on Tap
“… he was drawn back into the stream of being because there was once again a life in his hands. Things mattered.”
“Why feel bad about what you couldn’t change? Why not embrace it?”
“Man, you know how it goes. One day chicken. Next day bone.”
“Not all differences lead to disability. Some lead to exceptionality.”
“But why would anyone—officer, seaman, or scientist—volunteer for such a risky and difficult mission in the Arctic?”
“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”
“It takes a whole lot longer to dispose of a body than to dispose of a soul, especially if you don’t want to leave any evidence of foul play.”
“Fifteen men on the Dead Man’s Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”
“An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.”
“Then there was the shame of the writer who doesn’t write.”
“Why did people ask ‘What is it about?’ as if a novel had to be about only one thing.”