A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

You can't create the future unless you imagine it.

Once you provide people with a platform to start their own country, every conceivable type of innovator reaches out to you with their own idea.

Seasteading could be the means by which humanity will live sustainably.

Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it.

That's the marvellous thing about seasteads; if a government fails, there's nothing much the people who live there can do about it. But if seasteads fail, they simply disassemble and go away.

We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

On the shores of tranquility, meet me between now and again.

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

Her body was designed for pleasure, not speed, and Coop intended to take his time with it.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.

It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?