The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

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.

If your self-respect's for sale, don't complain when someone tries to bargain.

He (Abraham Lincoln) is one of the few men in history, our own history and all history, whose religion was great enough to bridge the gulfs between the sects, to encompass us all.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when I start.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

None of the bands I'm in demand constant touring, so I'm able to do a bunch of things.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits

The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.