"There came a point when I wanted to do television, and I didn't think the Afro was going to play, so I made a very difficult choice - to straighten my hair."

“Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.”

Source : "Interview with Barry Commoner" by Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

“You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.”

“I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie.”

“You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We just go to bed every night hoping you won't mutate us before we wake up.' Dr. Abbey blinked at her. 'That's...almost sweet. In a disturbing sort of a way.”

“As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together”

“Baseball teaches that errors are part of the game.”

“Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.”

“The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect,”