The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.

Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.

Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn't down there, I don't know.

The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.

Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.

Earth is a silly name for this planet.

Scientists are always the ones who head into the ocean, but I want to take writers and politicians, people who can convey the beauty that is there and perhaps do something to take care of it.

One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.

Theres something just magical about flight. Period.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough.

The problem with love is that there is so much of it to give." King Tommy

Wilted or in bloom, taking or lending daylight, the world transitions.

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.

Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems as if the same person writing is the one illustrating and vice versa.

Technology alone is not enough.