When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.
I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.
I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
I am terrified of submarines.
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.