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I can't take responsibility for everyone's employment. ”
Donald Trump is a symptom, not a disease. The disease is the death of real political conservatism: a cool, intelligent reluctance to believe that all change is good, a love for the established, the particular, and the well-worn. ”
Gleeful, unembarrassed ruthlessness, once rightly kept in check, has become normal among us, and 'Game Of Thrones' is a success because this change is now more or less complete. ”
When the basic status of a theory is clear, and all that needs to be cleared are details, you can collaborate. But if the main structure of a hypothesis isn't established, and you want to change the paradigm - like it was the case in the 1960s - it's better to work alone. ”
I just love when the learning curve is steep. And I love being in nature, in the wild. ”
A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan. ”
I write a lot of environmental stories. ”
Black people are more likely to be incarcerated than white people. That's just a fact and it's regrettable and it's got to change. ”
There are many kinds of truth. But truth communicated by beauty is the only pure one. The only one that touches me in the heart. ”
Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography. ”