The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you.

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.

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

Though I am weak yet God when prayed Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

Journalism is organized gossip.

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them

It's powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.

He'd surely been spawned by some cataclysmic event of nature, not born.

I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.