Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.

Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.

Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.

Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

True art awakens theExtraordinaryOvation

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes but is a reward in itself.

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

I don't see myself doing television, but I do see myself directing.

It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.

The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing

There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose till dawn of day.