As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.

After reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write

There was a young girl named Ratchet.She had skill and no one could match it.She wanted to beMore stylish and carefree, But she couldn't give up her Ratchet.

Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.

I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they grew up, I always find very interesting.

No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.

When I finally got to 30, I'll admit that there was a little anxiety, but at the same time I actually really liked it.

I like being moved. I don't like being pushed.

Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.

Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past.

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.