Humanity would never tolerate it
I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.
The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.
There is no business on a dead planet
I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.
Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
I remember when I posed as a customs officer so that I could meet Oscar Wilde. I said to him "Have you anything to declare?" He said "I have nothing to declare but my genius. " I said "I'll put that down as nothing then shall I?" For I am the wittiest man on Earth.
I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs.
Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.