Theres something just magical about flight. Period.

Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.

Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn't down there, I don't know.

The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.

Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.

Earth is a silly name for this planet.

Scientists are always the ones who head into the ocean, but I want to take writers and politicians, people who can convey the beauty that is there and perhaps do something to take care of it.

The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.

One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.

I'm not into superhero movies, but I love cartoons. Tweety bird is my favourite.

You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

Have I ever told you how scary it is that you think of heels in terms of their possible shiv potential?

Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty.

Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.