Discipline must be maintained.
The real danger to the Earth lies in this excessive consumption.
In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy.
This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits. . . . People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential.
From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.
One of the treasures of nature is beauty; this, too, should be preserved.
The beauty of the environment is an important factor in the quality of life.
Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After that, for me, it's an opportunity to explore that kind of imaginative artifact from inside, and use a little camped-up contemporary science as a way of generating new metaphors around my typical obsessions.
God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.
I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand. . . if I'm holding a calculator.