"We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today."

“His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.”

Source : William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”

“Faith of Cranes is a love song to the beauty and worth of the lives we are able to lead in the world just as it is, troubled though it be... The writing is honest, intensely lived, and overflowing with heart: broken, mended, and whole.”

“We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.”

“The fact is that Margaret Thatcher was never really a Conservative.”

“The libertarian good society lies... in the maximum dispersion of property compatible with effective production or, as process, in progressive reconciliation of conflicts between equality and efficiency. Such process involves increasing dispersion both of wealth among persons and families and of proximate productional control among enterprises or firms.”

Source : Henry Calvert Simons (1948). “Economic Policy for a Free Society”

“I'm not the type to cut back on hot showers, but there's no harm in hot water when it's warmed by the sun.”

Source : "Julia Louis-Dreyfus and husband Brad Hall discuss their eco-friendly hideaway". Interview with Amanda Little, grist.org. August 1, 2003.

“If Leekes you like, but do their smell dis-like, Eat Onyons, and you shall not smell the Leeke; If you of Onyons would the scent expell, Eat Garlicke, that shall drowne the Onyons' smell.”

“That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.”

Source : "Garry Trudeau: What a Long, Strange Strip It’s Been". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/february 2007.