Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

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.

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

We were destined to collide but the river of misunderstanding left us at the opposite banks.

How much did you get for your soul?

Any parent would have reservations if their kid came home dressed like a skinhead, but mine understood that punk kept me focused on something when so many of my friends were out robbing 7-Elevens.

Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.

Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.

There's a guy in California who was voting 24 years after he died. I mean, so to suggest to us that people who are concerned about honest elections are somehow nutty, I think, is a mistake.

All of the great whales are endangered.

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.