I don't feel my job is on the line, but of course that might change.

I became a villain for doing the right thing.

The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.

What the hell did we do to deserve this?

I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.

I'd like my life back.

We need the world to put a price on carbon.

Satisfying ever-growing energy demand in a sustainable way has become the world's biggest challenge.

She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they would always share a destiny.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

I hate how when I have a bunch of events going on and I have to get my hair done so much, [then] I have to wash it more often. It's definitely better not to.

No one's going to shoot at me.

The shortest route to deeper and richer worship is a clearer theology.

I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

One generation cannot bind another.