When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

Many people who have money does not realize that God has blessed them with it for a completely different purpose

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.

I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.

We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust him when he seems to be influencing us by his manner.

Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.

He who believes in the words of a dictator is the king of the fools!

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

I've got a passion for what I'm doing and I feel privileged all the time.

Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven.