I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.

Choice is a signature of our species.

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.

I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.