You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet

Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.' If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say

what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.

In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"

Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.

Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.

We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.

I was in a panto last year, Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp. I played the wick. I got the sack because I was too well-oiled every night.

When I'm weak, you can be strong; when I'm strong, you can be weak. That's what I believe marriage is.

I've laid my friends bare.

I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.

This is perfect for India because everyone who comes here gets the trots.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.