But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

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.

Sometimes the greatest pain, is the one we think we can’t control.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

The wisdom of bridges comes from the fact that they know the both sides, they know the both shores!

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes.

... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.