Quote of the Day

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”

• Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick; Typee, a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella.