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

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.

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

Social control is best managed through fear.

Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.

A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.

Maturity, ” Bokonontells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unlesslaughter can be said to remedy anything.

Ronald Reagan said, 'Trust, but verify.' President Obama is 'trust, but vilify.' He trusts our enemies and vilifies everyone who disagrees with him.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

I'm not particularly attention-seeking.

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

I can scare myself like a pro.

I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women.