The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.

Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks

Love is when you’d rather see someone one last time and die, than never see their face again.

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

And by the way, if she constantly leaving you messages that she's in another castle...she's just not that into you. Move on.

Sometimes we have to go wrong to go right - Acheron

I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff.

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.