Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"!

It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light.

In the ocean, [bioluminescence] is the rule rather than the exception.

The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain.

There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tells you how to catch them, how to clean them.

May the Lord rescue you from any calamity.

Don't wait for a huge platform before you give of your best performance

There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.

Our actions determine our dispositions.

Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world

Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.