Everything I do is the environment.

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

You can't make people respond.

If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.

If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.

Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

Experience through freedom is the only means to arrive at the truth and the best solutions; and there is no freedom if there is not the freedom to be wrong.

[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution."

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.

My parents are supportive of anything I want to do, as long as it's not bad.