Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

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.

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 joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction.

Each daily improvement should have a means by which it can be measured so you can see and feel yourself growing

An uneducated heart competes, a half educated heart cooperates but enlightened heart serves

And so ends his rush from his greatest act of rebellion. He understands that no matter where he runs or how high he flies, he will always have to come home.

Fate is an excuse for people who are too stupid or too weak to make their own future, " he said.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.

On Tony Gwynn: it was a wonder that such an exuberant man could be so patient.

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.

My father was very strict, but mostly I just didn't know how to behave on a date.

Anytime you put a baseball player in a suit and take him out of his element its uncomfortable.