Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.

The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained

Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

Look up, always. Look back, never.

Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.

I'm a little more goofy than I think people give me credit for. I like to have fun. I like to have a good time. People don't always get to see that.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.

Money is a needful and precious thing

When is a cell finally too small to hold our essence?

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.