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

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.

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.

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

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.

No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling.

Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!

my mother died of an overdose of sleeping pills after extensive surgery so that the cause of death was probably listed as despair.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

I don't feel opportunistic ever, in anything.

Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.

The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant.

For me, my rule in this industry is I've got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.