A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

Globalization is a fact of economic life

Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.

The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

If you liked El Salvador, you're going to love Colombia. It's the same death squads, the same military aid, and the same whitewash from Washington.

Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere

Sin is not just what the catechism says it is. Sin is not simply that which we commit. Sin is also what we desire but are too weak to do.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

I have to admit I do get a bit depressed at times and you know I think about the good old days when I was charging ahead.

For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.

I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.

Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too.

I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.

There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.