Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

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 you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.

I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy.

I once was lost, but now am found.

We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.

I love dill pickles! They're on my rider for my concerts so I eat one every day.

Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered. And that was only because he was laughing so hard.

The game was easy for me as a kid. I had to play a while to find out how hard it is.

There must be public servants who are working regularly among the people.