When I first started studying climate change back in the 1980s, I was struck by how difficult it was be for people to understand this issue.

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your beain will live, but your heart will die

The experience of God or in any case the possibility of experiencing God is innate.

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcome.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75

I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.

I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

The government doesn't run the economy. The economy is run by the private sector. The job of the president is to ensure we [the state] have policies that allow the private sector to grow and prosper.