In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.

Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

Environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s.

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.