No one escapes from life alive.

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible. And it needs to be apolitical. To mix environmental concerns with the frantic fantasies that people have about one political party or another is to miss the cold truth - that there is very little difference between the parties, except a difference in pandering rhetoric.

When I get sick, I go to my doctor like everyone else. A doctor has powerful tools that may help me. Or those tools may hurt me, make me worse. I have to decide. It's my life. It's my responsibility.

A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

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.