The sea is not rising. It hasn't risen in 50 years.

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.

All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.

Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.

She had said that she preferred to be alone for so many years that it was now one of those things that equally well might or might not be true.

We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.

A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.

There's no interference in stand-up. It's all the things it's hard to get in film: I get to have a wife, I get to have kids. I get to be sexual. I get to grow. I get to be a man.

I know I'm not great at structure and story.

We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning

We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.

Pigpen was and is now forever one of the Grateful Dead.

If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.