“It was a silly time to try to make a living out of words, but it was a silly time in general.”

“When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.”

“It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.”

“In Lovelock's view the earth was a 'super-organism,' a cybernetic feedback system that 'seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.' At the suggestion of his neighbor, author and screenwriter William Goldman, he called the system Gaia after the ancient Greek Earth goddess.”

“Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.”

“How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.”

“if we do not change our direction,we are likely to end up where we are headed”