Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own.

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Social control is best managed through fear.

... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That's why it's got the word con in it.

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .