I think art is a way of keeping the fear of death at a distance.

Local objections to quarries often stem from our industry's failure to demonstrate long-term value creation.

We are all obsessed with the idea of the frontier, but it's a frontier that keeps receding.

"You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say."

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith.