I prefer sayings over jokes.

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.

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up.

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

Love is a gamble, heartbreak is the cost.But never lose hope, for love is never truly lost.

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people.

I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.

Of course now we know that couldn't be further from the truth, that the subjects that keep young people's options open and unlock doors to all sorts of careers are the Stem subjects.

Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.

Take the road less travelled.