I'm not comfortable with comfort. I'm only comfortable when I'm uncomfortable.

"I never set out to create a classic. I just wanted to tell a story."

La literatura es el arte de la decepción controlada.

Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.

The path to decarbonization is complex, but the cost of inaction is far greater.

The good society is one in which virtue pays.

I'm not perfect, but I'm striving every day to be better than I was yesterday.