Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival mechanisms - adaptation.

Make your next car electric, put solar panels on your roof, and go vegan.

Climate change is my greatest concern.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Truth needs wisdom's guidance. Wisdom prevents a hard truth from getting the best of you when an imperfect character brings out the worst in you.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

Pain should not be wasted.

Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above. unmeasured by the flight of years; and all that life is love.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment.

I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful.