San Franciscans are very proud of their city, and they should be. It’s the most beautiful place in the world.

I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying.

When I was about fifteen, I went to work at Yosemite National Park. It changed me forever. Nature had carved its own sculpture, and I was part of it, not the other way around.

In 1973, I was shown a graphic of how dependent the United States was on nonrenewable resources like oil and coal and that little was being done to change that. It seemed irrefutable that we needed a change in direction or we'd be paying a huge price down the road. That's when I made a commitment to become a political activist.

Sometimes the failures can be exciting and fun. It's just a step on the road, it's not the end of something.

It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.