A word after a word after a word is power.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue.

There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous.

Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either.