My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.

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.

if its gets rough, you need to get tough.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye.

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

You show your worth by what you seek.

I love to laugh and well, who doesn't?