Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.

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.

The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.

A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.

Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

One should always be in love.

My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.

If I could be any famous person, I'd be John Wilkes Booth, because I'd love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face

the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)

You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.