There is a British pop group called God. At a recent book signing the lead singer introduced himself and gave me a cassette. I have heard the voice of God.

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.

Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.

I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing

It's great to be recognized for work, and the work is great, but once you have the awards, it becomes less important. It just gives you the ability to do better work, in my opinion.

If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the best will never even apply.

You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.

Halloween is a liberal holiday because we're teaching our children to beg for something for free. … We're teaching kids to knock on other people's doors and ask for a handout.

I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs.

Education is literally the difference between success and failure, or even life and death for many children.