I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.

I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean.

Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.

We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there.

I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.