Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.

When I started researching the eco effects of eating meat, I'd assumed, for no good reason, that environmental irresponsibility would correspond to both animal size and deliciousness: Eating cows would be worst, eating pigs would be a bit less bad, and eating chickens would be basically harmless.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity or if it is insisted upon by a commander irresponsibility.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.