All through my career I've written 1,000 words a day - even if I've got a hangover. You've got to discipline yourself if you're professional. There's no other way.

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.

We owe our loyalty to each other and to our children's children, not to party politics.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

Another problem with worry is that it makes you forget your worth. Worry makes you feel worthless, forgotten, and unimportant.

My teeth weren't that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones.

Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.

I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

I will resign as party leader to take full responsibility for troubling the public and party supporters.

All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.