There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached.

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

With you, I would walk anywhere

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

A man could not always be where he belonged, though.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.

I think I saw "Predator" when I was six. So I knew from a very young age that it wasn't real, but I just loved it.

Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.

Maybe I think too much.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

Indias rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.