A general rule: if enough people predict something, it won't happen.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short.

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.

I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.

Margaret Attwood: “I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one race – the human race – and that we are all members of it.”Amen to that, I say. (Tom Bryson)

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.

The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.

I can sometimes be a demanding person and Cristiano is really patient dealing with my personality. So I also try my hardest to offer him all my support when he needs it.

I'm sorry, but having an Aston Martin DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.