We all survive more than we think we can.

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything every day, but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid to start again. So I do something every day.

I've always been fascinated with marine geography and how deep things are. I was spellbound by the tsunami, for example, by the actual maps. There is just something about the unseen bottom of the sea that has always fascinated me, how deep is it.

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

The last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It should open the piece up.

I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent to children.