- From The Funeral
The Daily Dick: Musings from the Greatest Novel Ever

"Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain, warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own."