Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.

Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.

Eighty percent of the people of Britain want more money spent on public transport — in order that other people will travel on the buses so that there is more room for them to drive their cars.

A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them

It's not the future I'm talking about, I'm talking about tomorrow.

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

When the lenses in the eyes of a leader captures tomorrow, they don't print the passport size of it. They make enlargements.

The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I'd never known.

Freedom from sin is real

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts bestowed for the good of the country and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

Anytime you test for a TV show, you have that bit of squeamishness entering into it because they lock you in for a number years.

Despotism is a long crime.