The bottom billion people don't contribute at all to climate change - maybe 1 percent of emissions, they could double or triple their emissions and the climate would not be destabilised.

The first law of humanity is not to kill your children.

What is the difference between a 2°C world and a 4°C world? Human civilisation!

Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets

Don't ask what global climate protection can do for your country; ask what your country can do for climate protection.

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

When you imagine that if all these 9 billion people claim all these resources, then the earth will explode.

The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.

Comfortable? Don't be. I believe in those moments where we grow comfortable is where we stop growing, and in order to keep evolving, God slips the rug from beneath our feet and makes us look up.

People are not going to love you unless you love them.

I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.

My girlfriend still doesn't know why her sweaters are always stretched out.

This world is not a place where people can be together forever.

I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous.

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.

When you buy a depressed company it's not going to go up right after you buy it, believe me.

When I was a kid, I used to be way more nerdy about comic books and comic book characters. I still love them, but I don't collect anymore.