If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.

Let's make hay while it lasts.

Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in our minds the thought: the earth is alive.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

Life is too short to be waiting around for opportunities to come in your direction. You must go out there like a hunter and hunt them down.

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

I was like, wait a minute. When I hear my sisters' names, I want to have a joyful feeling in my heart about it.

A number of people who are interested in computers in this lifetime programmed computers in Atlantis.

I like filming in the UK - I'll sleep in my own bed, which I'm really happy about.

Women are the true modelers of social order.

Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.

I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.

The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.