The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We are on an unsustainable course.

Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent.

It's difficult to protect something if it doesn't have a price.

Most of all, Creation must be protected for its own sake, even if we currently assign no value or an incorrect value to it.

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit.

If heaven was created only for the most stupid clown, then Mr Bean could have been the only righteous man on earth.

Perhaps, Howard thought, the curtains and murals and pastel angels are a mercy, a dim reflection of things fit for the fragility of human beings.

Sometimes, I feel that if you're a strong, independent woman it scares people away, but actually it does the opposite.

What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form.

People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.

I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America...

The dead have need of fairy tales too.