I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

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.

I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years.

Ego is a drum and the drum has to make a noise to tell everyone that that it is there!

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.

I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it.

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

The challenge we've got is that the Government does not have a working majority. They don't.