It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

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.

Don’t stay with someone who drives you crazy. Find someone who keeps you sane.

There is more evil than good when we preach the miracle centered gospel instead of the kingdom gospel.

It depressed me to think that I might have been looking at another person but seeing only myself.

Spirituality is ... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed.

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

You can't touch music, but music can touch you