Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.

What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.

Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.

It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.

As for diet, there is no biblical diet that is required for God’s people today as there was in the Old Testament.

People in high school either feel like they're with the cool kids in a clique, or they're isolated - there's no in-between.

If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey, ' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'

Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.

It's almost always dangerous to be right too soon.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.

It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.