In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity.

It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.

I have lived now for over a century, yet I can still say with complete confidence that no one can claim to have plumbed the depths of human misery who has not shared the fore-ends of a submarine with a camel.