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.

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.

Theres something just magical about flight. Period.

To win, depend on your thoughts and actions but not on circumstances.

Attitude is something that comes to your rescue when you're looking for help from external sources.

My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.

The more passionate that someone is about something, the more you have to listen to them.

Normal is a bitter pill that we rail against.

I have come to believe, more strongly than ever, that after people die they really do live on through those who love them.

Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism - and for women.

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

John McEnroe's so good. Against him, all you can do is shake hands and take a shower.