Time is running out to deal with climate change.

Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter.

Dance with me through moments of surreality. We are one.

If nothing lasts forever, then I am forever nothing.

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

I am a God-fearing man. In fact, I don't go to church because I'm afraid I'll run into him there.

My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

There's something kind of beautiful about that pure love of things. Like, "I'll show that I love the thing I love by hating everything else."

Democracy is a life, and involves continual struggle.

Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.