Fracking is different. The risks of any single well are tiny compared to a nuclear power plant. But several hundred wells? Several thousand?

I don't fear fracking. I fear carbon

Take the time to get it right. There'll be gas tomorrow night

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.

Blinking, twinkling, burning brightAre all the stars that light the night.Dippers, Ursa's and Orion too, But don't forget the star in you.

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

God who gives the wound gives the salve.