The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.

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.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery

An uncomplicated woman gets complicated when she finally says what she means.

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

I am running for re-election no matter who runs.

I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body. It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.

It was hard graft all the way and a good result in the end.

Never again will NAACP find itself near financial ruin.

What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly.

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.