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

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" 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. "

" Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don't think it's that rich a vein. "

" Most climate debates have focused on cutting the use of fossil fuels. But besides a few high-profile scuffles over fuel extraction in vulnerable wild places like the offshore Arctic, political leaders have ignored fossil fuel production as a necessary piece of climate strategy. "

" I'm not calculating enough in the way I approach writing. "

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

" Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language. "

" I don't write the same book twice. "

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

" Within the macho-melodrama tropes of the superhero genre, it's fair to say 'Watchmen' stands out for its rich entertainment, its darkness, and its lurid pleasures. Its vividly drawn panels, moody colors and lush imagery make its popularity well-deserved, if disproportionate. "

" The Free Body Culture gave me a gift I might never have received had I refused to play along. It left me with an acute sense of the absurd - one I still cherish - to be there among my fellow apes, awkward and less than half-willing, aiming and missing, leaping, landing and wincing. "

" I'm for any woman who loves sloths. "

" Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that. "

" I like to amuse myself. "

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

" It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed. "

" African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic studies now proves there are two. "

" The grizzly bears that live in and around Yellowstone make up almost half the population in the lower 48 states, and now those bears are at risk. "

" Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not. "

" If the dinosaurs are any indication, there's a place in our pantheon for the extinct. My son has a blue plushy allosaurus he calls Spot-Spot, with whom he often sleeps. "

" There has to be space for play in literature. We all need some breathing room. "

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

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" Both climate change and extinction are results of our tyranny over the nonhuman world and our domination of, and exploitation of, whole categories of each other - and those, in turn, are clearly linked to agriculture, the cattle-industrial complex, capitalism. "

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

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" For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victims of vicious government extermination programs. By the time the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, only a few hundred of these once-great predators were left in the lower 48 states. "

" 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. "