In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

Because I lay with him… I’ve caught a glimpse of heaven. Or I understand what I need. Or I have the courage to be myself.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being on a page.

Congressman [Mike] Pompeo said he believes the intelligence agencies' claims that Russia hacked the US election.

Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.

If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.

Every day you eat is every day you have to work out.

In real life, I am alarmingly boring.

Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs.

When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.