I don't think there is any global warming. I don't see the statistical data for that.

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time.

The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.

"not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming".

Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.

People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.

So Encourage Each Other and Build Each Other Up-Positive Connections.

Luck never gives; it lends.

A creed is an ossified metaphor.

If your hair has never given you any trouble, if you've never had huge fights with your mother about it, then you might not have a story to tell. But I think most people do.

I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size

Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.

I thought the whole masturbation thing was really odd and really weird.

Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.

I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.