Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.

August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.

Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.

The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.

Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.

Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

Give all of life’s oxygen to the fire that is your soul.

No wife wants to hear that her husband is less than perfect.

If you think individual, that's how you're going to come off. I've always given 'team' a chance.

I don't emphasize the whatevs. I say it as if it's truly a toss-away word.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

I don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not.

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

My first vocation was dance.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.