Quotes from Clive Cussler

How's your current air supply? Enough to get us home if we don't stop for pizza.

Call it theft of Mr. Spock's logic.

and chicken, grits with shrimp and crab, a southern coleslaw

This Haida fisherman was in the john when his friends unknowingly left him behind. Please see that he gets to the dock before the fishing fleet departs. C. Cussler Chief Forman

I knew it. We've expired and gone to Disneyland.

broadcasting from the Edificio Libertador in Buenos Aires. It's the headquarters for the Army and one of the most heavily guarded buildings in the country.

Giordino: I've been wanting to say this, but you look vaguely familiar. The Kid: Can't imagine why. I don't recall meeting up with you fellas before. Giordino: Would I offend you if I asked you your real name? The Kid: Not at all, I don't take offense easily. It's an odd name. Never used it much. It's Clive Cussler. Giordino: You're right, it is an odd name.

As Maeve hurried from the study, she turned and took one last look at her father and Boudicca, whom she always thought of as her sister, an older sibling who remained distant and seldom displayed anything but animosity, but a sister nonetheless. Her father had kept the secret well, enduring the shame and hiding it from the world. It sickened her to discover after all these years that Boudicca was a man.

I'll shed this Star Wars suit while we're in flight. The Navy can have it back when I get around to returning it.

You wouldn't happen to have some of that good Aussie beer with you by chance? You like our beer? I keep a case of Castlemaine from Brisbane on hand for special occasions. We don't have any Castlemaine, but I can offer you a bottle of Fosters. I'd be much obliged.

FBI SPECIAL AGENT Miguel Gomez leaned

There's a little of Dirk Pitt in all of us.

If this was a level of security provided by Corinth's finest company, he considered making a career change, to Greek cat burglar.

The fascination for me is searching the unknown for a mystery.

There is no greater unknown than the sea and no greater mystery than a lost ship.

I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.

I'm a storyteller.

I have a large collection of town cars because when I was just a snipe in the gutter, growing up in Los Angeles, a town car drove by. I remember running in the house to get my mother so she could see it. It was utterly magnificent.

I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.

Matthew's all right. Originally, I wanted Errol Flynn, but McConaughey should be good as Dirk Pitt.

Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl?

I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.

Time is a thief. It steals our memory, our hopes, and our strength, leaving only the sense there's never enough of it.

Though neither of them had ever called their meeting a case of love at first sight, they'd both agreed it had certainly been a case of "pretty damned sure at first hour.