We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status

Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.

The future will be green, or not at all

If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't

Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a world could be

Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues

Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.

We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough?

Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties

Shake it off little girl, dry your tears, suck it up and face your fears.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.

No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.

Buddy of mine once told me that he'd rather fly a jet than kiss his girl. Said it gave him more of a kick.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

Obviously I was talking to my parents and my girlfriend all the time, but it's one thing to finally be in the same room and get to be with each other and just hang out.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.