Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

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.

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.

Oh! You are a woman! You are the pure reflection of my mother, sister, and daughter. I can never hurt you.

Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.

All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

There are many rooms in the House of Pain.

I've never once heard my mom complain about her stroke.

The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

The ways of the mind are ancient, but you are timeless

What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.