Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

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.

Don't worry if you've been labeled as weird. Who wants to be classed as normal in an insane world?

Being autistic does not mean I don't have empathy. Stereotypes are harmful. If anything I hyper feel everything and have to try to shut off to cope.

What comes from the heart lands on the heart creatively.

Just make it (his obituary): born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917.

To us and a wonderful evening of love making.

My grandmother used to say before you moan about the muck on someone else's glasses make sure you're not on about the muck on your own her glasses were filthy

What I'm not in the habit of doing, and I'm not going to do, is go around cap in hand pleading with players to play for their country.

The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

So many actors spend so much energy trying to remember the lines. It's so foolish. Guys are the worst.