In the end, it became clear that all scientists were participants in a participatory universe which did not allow anyone to be a mere observer.

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.

Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance.

Believe None of What You Hear, And Only Half of What You See.

Water runs if you try to grasp it, but pours onto an open hand.

Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

There's a very apt saying in show business: "If you don't go over budget in Paris, you're either very rich or very sick. "

I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.