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.

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.

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.

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.

...we've let go of so many things, but never each other's hand ...

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

With music, I'm comfortable singing to people but I'm not that comfortable playing the guitar.

Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!

I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.

I'm hoping that with the high profile that the Go-Go's are going to have over the next year, that if anybody is interested in what else I do, I'll have something I can say that I do.

Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.