Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

We don't make the investments we need to make, the sector fails to innovate, and then we conclude that it can't innovate.

The levels of technology investment in the energy sciences pales compared to the kinds of investment we make in the computer and bio-sciences.

After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.

We can still cap carbon, but that needn't be at the top of the agenda that we communicate to voters.

Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming.

Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics.

There is really no room in any healthy diet for trans fat, artificial sweeteners, and artificial colors in food.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.

The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.

Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.