Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

I don't think it's a question of whether you eat meat. It's a question of what kind of meat, and where it comes from.

[My favorite word is] and. It is so hopeful.

My father was a forest entomologist, which means he was aware that spraying forests for spruce budworm was counterproductive in that it didn't really work, and it killed everything else in the forests, and it wasn't good for the people who were exposed to it, either. So he was an early proponent of not doing that, but, of course, nobody listened.

You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change.

It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography — but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off.