Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

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.

Power is the ability not to have to please

If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with—and vice versa—the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

The current paradigm is so thoroughly established that the only way to change is to start over again.

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.