When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. ... Life on the Mississippi

It looks like it's going to stall out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It should just continue to weaken but not go away altogether.

It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things that I can remember that aren't so.

No nation ever had two better friends than we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

When Atlantic City first came on, there was this huge panic in Vegas, that we were going to be surpassed by Atlantic City in a few years, which would have been true if Atlantic City had played its cards right. But the race is pretty much over, and Las Vegas has won.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.