All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Social control is best managed through fear.

...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.

I think when we get to a place that this is not the story, that everyone's story is a part of the story, then we can say this has changed. Until then, these are steps to change if they're consistent.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.

I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.

What was I elected for? ... This is a matter of core principle.

My house is burned, but I can see the sky.

. . . as long as there are movement and harmony, there are words.

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.