Sooner or later, all games become serious.

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.

The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction.

Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

Winter is the reason for the spring; he who loves the spring must also love its reason!

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.