The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

Eventually, I think you find a spiritual and emotional connection with someone, and I think it unifies you with everyone else. I think if you love one person, it makes you love everyone.

If your body is 90% water what have you got to drink water all the time for? Why can't you just have some crisps?

The only systems we can afford to employ are those that rationally serve the planet first, then all humanity. Not out of some woolly, bullshit tree-hugging piffle but because we live on it, currently without alternatives.

Surfing should be called "foam-choking" or "sea stabbing.