In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement.

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.

We all have a sea inside us

If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.

When you think of famous New Zealanders, there aren't many.

Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

The beauty of personal authenticity can compensate for the lost beauty of our youth.

Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.

Be Good, Do Good.Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme.

Why can men be boys all of their lives, but we women must grow old while we are yet young?