Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time.

The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.

"not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming".

Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

I don't think there is any global warming. I don't see the statistical data for that.

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.

Self-harm appealed to my sadness but I didn't let it coax me.

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake.

My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.

The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist.

I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.

Not everything has to be a couples' event.