I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

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.

In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

What's amazing about doing movies, compared to television, there's an ending you can see. There's an enthusiasm to it.

I'm a perimeter player. I'm more like a Ray Allen.

When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.

I love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil.

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

Delay in justice is injustice.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin