During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

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.

Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.

The shortcut to anything you want in your life is to BE and FEEL happy now!

I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?