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Pirates did not store all their treasures in treasure chests, then bury them and draw maps to them. That's a movie invention. In reality, pirates spent their money as fast as they could steal it because they knew they were living on borrowed time. They didn't want to wait around to enjoy the money.

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

I think that pirates represent every person's ability to get up and leave their current daily situation and go on an adventure, and maybe to see things and do things they've never done before or even dreamed of doing.

It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.

A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.

Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

Once you discover that real pirates are more interesting than fictional ones, you can't look away.

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.