We don't have to go around as the Protestant reformation did, or as the socialist revolution did, and execute each other as soon as we are successful - assuming we'll ever be successful.

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.

Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.

People are never free of trying to be content.

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

To speak of 'limits to growth' under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.

The level of sacrifice that a vision requires will determine the size of people who follow such leader.

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place.

Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.

I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was born to do.

Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.

I’d like to have the flying car, I think that’d be really cool.

Talking to celebrities is too much effort. They all think the same.

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.