Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.

You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.

Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.

The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.

Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.

It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.

Only sweet people with good virtues can go to fairyland. Those who treat others meanly and without respect can never go there.

Purchasing a large and expensive home during a real estate boom turned into the biggest financial mistake that I ever made.

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

Oh, it's the first big thing I've really done. My first job out of college was working with Steven Soderbergh. I was telling my acting teachers, "I did it, you guys!"

The climate change is real today, but also the solutions that we have available to us that are cost-effective and beneficial to everyone are at our disposal now.

Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.

I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina.

Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.