Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different.

Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.

I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.

The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.

Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo?