Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

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.

If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil’s most brilliant move and science, God’s.

On se réconcilie avec un ennemi qui nous est inférieur pour les qualités du coeur ou de l'esprit

When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card.(Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)

The prettier the wine bottle, the higher the likelihood sorority girls will buy it.

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.

I think you have to play your own game and sometimes people don't realise that the play-maker runs the most kilometres on the pitch!

I like to get people fired up, fill them with zeal for McDonald's, and watch the results in their work.