Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics.

We don't make the investments we need to make, the sector fails to innovate, and then we conclude that it can't innovate.

Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The levels of technology investment in the energy sciences pales compared to the kinds of investment we make in the computer and bio-sciences.

After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.

We can still cap carbon, but that needn't be at the top of the agenda that we communicate to voters.

Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming.

Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.

I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.

That man has no shadow.

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

You might be a redneck if you can amuse yourself for more than an hour with a fly swatter.

It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.

The poor sleep little.

Challenging American leadership is not at stake.