If you start getting instability in large powers with nuclear weapons, that's not a good day.

We need to start prioritizing people, not polar bears.

Climate change isn't just an environmental issue; it's a technology, water, food, energy, population issue. None of this happens in a vacuum.

People working on climate change should prepare for catastrophic success.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control.

I like to think of climate action as a three-legged stool.

Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes.

Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .

Actually I think I have forgotten how it was back then. Or probably not - I didn't qualify. There were only 16 cars in the race.

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves.

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.