We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind.

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Social control is best managed through fear.

The only way you're going to reach places you've never gone is if you trust God's direction to do things you've never done.

Life itself is a frightening image for every human being.... being strong in life isn't easy.

I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us...

It's amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

Women wearing men's clothes are chic, men wearing women's clothes make us fall on the floor laughing.

It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.

So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.

The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.