Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.

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.

I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.

The more I think I know I realize, the more that is left unknown and that's the best part.

We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are.

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.

Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

I can't get no respect.

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.

The amazing thing is that we could live in the world together peacefully, feed the world, shelter the world. We have that capability both spiritually and technologically.