The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.
[I want] a one-armed scientist. . . [Who would not qualify his advice with 'on the other hand. . . ']
High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth.
Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.
In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.
You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.
We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of lakes, rivers and bays where all forms of life have been smothered by untreated wastes, and oceans which no longer provide us with food.
Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.
The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.
I see in [George H. W. ] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.
What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.