No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.