After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.

We don't make the investments we need to make, the sector fails to innovate, and then we conclude that it can't innovate.

Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The levels of technology investment in the energy sciences pales compared to the kinds of investment we make in the computer and bio-sciences.

We can still cap carbon, but that needn't be at the top of the agenda that we communicate to voters.

Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming.

Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics.

As time flies, its the kid who becomes his parents' shadow.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do.

My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic.

In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.