If all fossil fuel were to go POOF! tomorrow, the result would be a cataclysmic social upheaval, with food riots, warlords, shutdowns, breakdown of social order, water shortages, and outbreaks of bloodshed and disease.

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

I grew up amongst biologists.

There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.