Face the facts, all these environmental organizations are thirty, forty, fifty years old. They have big buildings, big obligations, big staffs. They may trade on their youthful dreams, but the truth is, they're now part of the establishment. And the establishment works to preserve the status quo. It just does.

Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.

I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

Keep working. Don't wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.