Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.

We tend to think of America's days of frontier exploration as being behind us, but that's because we tend not to think of the other 71% of our blue planet.

Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

If he loved me, he couldn't kill me.

You only win when you let others win.

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.

Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.

I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.

It's really cool that Miley Cyrus said she's the biggest feminist ever. I was like, 'That's the sound of 200,000 eight-year-olds Googling the word "feminist!

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.