"In publishing The First Man I said to myself, 'this is going to be awful,' but awful from the point of view of the criticism. I'm not afraid of [Albert] Camus' public. I'm afraid of what will be written in the papers."

“If you change our immigration system to a skills-based system that respects and treats people for who they are as individuals as opposed to residents of a certain country or relatives of certain people in the United States, it's a system that is more in keeping with American values.”

“It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power—specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.”

Source : Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

“He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.”

“You're dying every minute, but you won't die yet.”

“People can try to eat the correct things, take the correct amount of exercise, worry less and so forth. But in the end fate or destiny is seen as taking its toll. People die, to use a commonly used phrase, 'when their number's up'.”

Source : Peter Dickens (1992). “Society and Nature: Towards a Green Social Theory”, p.161, Temple University Press

“I've learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective.”

“My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I dont know if its the right thing to do - push your kids into something and then stay on them until they do it. Let them pick what they want to do.”

“I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.”