I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.

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.

The fact that both ego and self say "I" is a source of confusion and misidentification. The well-informed ego says truly, "I am what I know myself to be." The self says merely, "I am.

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood

Always make sure to write down whatever you can remember dreaming about. Dreams are just dormant ideas. It's up to you how you use them.

Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.

I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time.

Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.

God without us will not as we without God cannot.