I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.

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.

You must ask your creator for the purpose of your living because only he knows your destiny

Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee.

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

We are not a monolithic group of individuals, not every single person believes the exact same thing.

I was once that little boy Terrified of the world, now I'm on a world tour

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

Always now - just now - come into being. Always now - just now - give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice.

There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that.