You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down.

Change isn’t closing the door on the old, it is opening the door on the new.

We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.

I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing...

When you choose to connect with others under stress, you can create resilience.

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

Middle age is when you find out where the action is so you can go someplace else.

There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Some things have to be exposed.

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.