You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a book in eight or nine months.

Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.

...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.

Nothing of importance happened today.

You have to be silent, but ready

Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

I may be boring, but it would be to wake up by my dog and then my daughter.

Anything that you want to write about you can write about in sports.

There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an innate beauty.

In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.

You can go home again...so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.