Anyone who said he wasnt afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didnt shake but inside I was shaking. – James L. Farmer, Jr.

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. – Carl Clinton Van Doren