In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took…

“Look,’ said Tyrena. ‘In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in…

— Dan Simmons

I'm a vegan. But, no one believes it because when you're out in the field, most of your meal options involve meat with a…

— Nicole Lapin

Some people do not eat cow meat. I do so, provided it's tender.

— Yajnavalkya

That's why workers in France like horsemeat, because it's like a male thing that makes you strong. Cow meat is a much more female…

— Gaspar Noe

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

— Dan Simmons

The best advice that an accomplished writer could give a beginning writer is probably, "Find your slide and then grease it." Almost every writer…

— Dan Simmons

I think challenges are what any decent writer would be all about. If you actually do find your slide and grease it, shame on…

— Dan Simmons

“Dad's oil dehydrator was a contained electrostatic field, one electrode down the center, the other the container's inner wall. Principal problem was finding a…

— John Cage

The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual…

— Russell Kirk

Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago),…

— Matthew Simmons

The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been…

— Fred Hoyle

I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.”

— Christopher Hitchens

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you…

— Dick Gregory

I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two…

— Noam Chomsky