Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

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.

You don’t tap on the Devil’s shoulder unless you’re willing to dance to his tune.

I was flying right toward him (the pig) at the speed of demigod-smashing.

You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.

We have so many things that we have to do better,and certainly cyber is one of them.

Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.

The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

If you want to keep a friend, never test him.

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

Its really important to understand the difference between sentience and consciousness, which are important for human beings.