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" I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon. "

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" I love irony. "

" I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts. "

" I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people. "

" I can be pretty dense about my own basic needs, when my focus is getting through the many small tasks of a day's work and a day's caretaking. "

" I think that young readers have very strong stomachs. "

" In the 1970s, Safari Club International asked the federal government to approve its import of 1,125 not-yet-killed trophies of 40 endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans and tigers, according to the Humane Society of the United States. "

" More than two million years ago, mammoths and Asian elephants took different evolutionary paths - and around the same time, according to DNA research, so did their lumbering relatives in Africa. "

" Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature? "

" I've seen a few wild grizzly bears, mostly in Alaska and British Columbia, and always from a distance. But each grizzly I've caught sight of was as fearsome and sublime as the last. You never get used to their raw power and massive bodies, or the mysterious intelligence in their dark, close-set eyes. "

" When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program. "

" Wyoming, home to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons, is also the country's largest coal producer and one of its largest gas drillers. Two-thirds of the state's gas-drilling rigs are on public lands in the increasingly industrialized Greater Green River Basin. "

" I used to try to write around the edges, but now I try to walk a more direct line. "

" Economic and health statistics, as well as police-violence statistics, shed light on the pressures on American Indian communities and individuals: Indian youths have the highest suicide rate of any United States ethnic group. "

" I like to amuse myself. "

" If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for. "

" After numerous generations of people dedicated to killing wolves on the North American continent, one generation devoted itself to letting wolves live. "

" I wanted to go into the tropics and save animals - and write, of course. "

" In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city was bombed. "

" You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel. "

" Everyone desires to laugh sometimes, and I want to make that available. "

" L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally. "

" The male domination and chauvinism of the comics form is either being wittily lampooned in 'Watchmen' or handily perpetuated, depending on whom you ask. "

" If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site or, for that matter, Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill - no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion. "

" Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this. "

" As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president. "

" We were a Seuss family. As a child, I read almost all of his books, but the one I loved best was 'The Lorax.' "

" Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing. "

" I never seem to leave L.A., though I left L.A. "

" Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over wilderness areas and blocking wildlife corridors in America's most treasured landscapes. "

" The Safari Club International has worked the legal system hard to try to keep polar bears - threatened primarily by climate change, but also by hunting - on the list of creatures people can import as trophies after shooting. "