The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*.

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.

Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning.

A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.

To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.

The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance

If you're constantly stepping outside of the character and judging them, you'll never really be able to fully engage because you'll always be slightly cynical.

Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.