Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

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.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

Money is the seal and stamp of success.

A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

Take all the hype out of the exercise and think of it as brushing your teeth.

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

I made all my mistakes playing with people.

If I'm confirmed I'll be myself.

I believe in serendipity, but I also believe there are times when you have to be the one who lines up everything so it can fall into place.

I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.