"When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'"

"Women find men attractive who are aggressive... but later on, they get worried that that aggression, that alpha energy, is going to be turned back against them and their children."

"There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end."

"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."

"The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making."