If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.

You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.

Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.

The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.

Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.

Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

We had a food store at the theatre and I used to pinch food. I pinched some trousers and shirts to keep me going but they would wear out. I was virtually on the breadline.

That which serves our spirits enhances our bodies. That which diminishes our spirits diminishes our bodies.

Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.

I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.

There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.

Every line, everything you do in life, should have a motive and a reason. Every one of us should have a motive and a reason, most of the time, to accomplish all the things that we want in life.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.