I think Detroit is starting to get it. We consider it a victory for the grassroots, CalCars, and the Internet-led effort.

Many hybrid owners realize how sharply fuel efficiency goes down over 55 mph because they get instant mileage feedback.

Appetite is the beast in man, compassion is his spirit.

True beauty is a beautiful character shinning through.

The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians.

Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.