"A colorful handle on a tool does nothing for me. Once it drops into that jungle out there, unless it's absolutely huge, it's gone until fall."

“Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.”

“All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.”

“I had rather be right than be President.”

Source : Quoted in Niles' Register, 23 Mar. 1839

“I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.”

“I first got into fruit when I was a teenager, when my life was changing in every way. The first time I had a mango, at like 18, I was like, 'Where has this been my whole life?”

“When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.”

“The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.”

“Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.”