Global warmers predict that global warming is coming, and our emissions are to blame. They do that to keep us worried about our role in the whole thing. If we aren't worried and guilty, we might not pay their salaries. It's that simple.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you finally, against your better judgment, to listen to country music.