Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Social control is best managed through fear.

Justice suffers when men refuse to stand firm for what is right.

It's not so much a question of whether we've shot it through 35mm or digital video; what is important is whether the audience accepts it as real.

The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.

Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them. They are the final, the nth whoopee of sight.

The mind is the most important thing of the big picture and no one has a stronger mindset than amateur wrestlers.

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.

Some people in England only have their wheelie bins collected once a fortnight. Their suffering is unimaginable.

Thought and action can be perceived as two different dimensions of who you are: the mental you and the physical you

We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us.