An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

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.

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts and actions--what will you reflect?

Also, that men fall into two classes--those who forget views and those who remember them, even in small rooms.

We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

I love to work. I absolutely love to work.

The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.

I like vintage a lot.

God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.