Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.

Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

But the macro-economy is not the Whole. It too is a Part, a part of the larger natural economy, the ecosphere, and its growth does inflict opportunity costs on the finite Whole that must be counted.

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.

Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

Success is a habit not an isolated event. Be passionate about success to cultivate it.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

When I looked at myself through the prism of awareness, great tears came as I connected with how this wounded child felt.

A fiery little cat you are, Caecelia. Like a lioness in heat, oh how you bloom.

You're never too old to start learning, and you're never too young to aim high and achieve great things.

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

I like the dark; it is safer here, where no one can see me. The shadows caress me; friends hugging me.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.