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.

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.

Sweat makes good friendship cement.

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to think about. Who could ever remember the plot of those shows?

I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening.

I had good parents. Nothing terrible happened. But I had the feeling that they kind of protected me from reality somehow.

Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.

I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem.

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.

I'm very close to the pro-life movement.