225 Quotes by Mark Kurlansky

I think we are drawn to anti-heroes because that is what most of us are most of the time and it is good to see that we are heroic.

I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.

What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility.

One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War.

One of the truly horrible things about the Holocaust is that it doesn't end in 1945. It keeps affecting our lives in the way we think, and it will affect the way our children see the world.

Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization.

I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.

Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money.

I am first and foremost a storyteller; I want to tell a good story, and I want it to mean something - something that I think is important.