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" My motto is, if you love something, don't set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid. "

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" People who are obsessed amuse me. "

" On climate change, we have only a handful of years to make massive changes, according to the scientists. The politicians have to act, and only the people can make them, because Royal Dutch Shell's not going to do it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One man's holy is another woman's sublime. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Without even knowing why, we believe that to learn how to be human - which we have many years to do, for human beings have longer childhoods than any other species, a feature that to biologists and philosophers alike is one of our race's distinguishing characteristics - children must be surrounded by animal imagery. "

" I don't like names that are clever or made-up sounding. "

" I like to amuse myself. "

" I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House? "

" The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympathy that was harder to detect: Characters' foibles and obsessive bents were unrelenting, like caricatures. "

" The summer after I got divorced, my children asked to sleep in my bed again. It would be the first time we'd shared a bed since they were infants. "

" I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom. "

" What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve. "

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

" Without elephants, Africa's landscape would be unrecognizable, yet these animals have fallen by the hundreds of thousands as a result of two enormous waves of poaching in this century - one in the 1970s and 1980s, the other, beginning around 2009, now underway. "

" You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced! "

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

" There is a lot of contradictions of mermaids as a symbol. I'm always interested in contradictions. "

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

" No one bought my screenplays. "

" When 'Watchmen' was published in 1986, the vast majority of comics readers deemed it a watershed in comics history. The 12-part serial comic book was widely acclaimed as a genius subversion of the superhero genre, and it did much to popularize comics to adults. "

" 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. "

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

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