We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

You can't make people respond.

If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.

Everything I do is the environment.

If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.

The sun had now set the sky ablaze with glorious hues of orange. She squinted to focus in the brilliance and thoughts of distant fire breathing dragons lit up her imagination once again.

What marvel things are waiting for us in the future? What horrible things are waiting for us? Whatever is waiting for us, we always want to be in the future, ready to celebrate and ready to fight!

Capitalism brings wealth and inequality with intellectuality.

I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.

I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could, for grown-ups.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.

Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.