I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.

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.

Aures habent et non audient' - 'They have ears but hear not

Man created languages, but God created laughter. Humanity can always laugh together even if it can't always speak together.

What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?

I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.

I'm much more concerned about America than the Democratic Party.

The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

In your quietest moments appear your most true thoughts.

Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.