"Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance"

“If I had kids, my kids would hate me ... They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something in my life would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.”

“If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.”

“Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have the miserable conviction the we alone suffer to the point of unbearable intensity. Unhappiness is always to feel oneself imprisoned in one's own skin, in one's own brain.”

Source : Jacques Lusseyran (2016). “Against the Pollution of the I: On the Gifts of Blindness, the Power of Poetry, and the Urgency of Awareness”, p.143, New World Library

“Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.”

“Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I'm not interested in what the public thinks. My fight is in the courts. And while I have been fighting with the appeal it has been an uphill battle because I am an unpopular cause. Too much public pressure, too much politics. To give me a hearing so that I can prove that the state withheld evidence favourable to me, that the identifications of some of the victims was wrong, and that my attorney was more concerned about book rights and how sensationally more the case could get the higher the value of the book.”

“What wonders lie in every mountain day!”

“Every woman should see herself looking uniquely breathtaking, in something tailored to celebrate her body, so that she is better able to appreciate her own beauty and better equipped to withstand the ideals of our narrow-waisted, narrow- minded culture.”