My dream is remaking and reforming a more sustainable, more livable, delicious future.

[The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other end comes cleaner water.

Anything that had happened once on Earth should be expected millions of times elsewhere in the Universe

Taking measures to ensure stability could assure the long-term economic growth and welfare at a global level

I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.

Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result.

The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.

I'm probably going to deliver my baby in these [4-inch YSL heels] ... I went to the doctor yesterday and he said, 'You're gonna need to get out of those heels!'

I just tried to build on my failures.

Reserve your abuse for your true friends.

Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.