Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.

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.

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

I'm grateful my teenaged daughter is healthy and well and for the work I do to make a living.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.

I drink diet coke so I can eat regular cake.

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.

Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.

Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.