“I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one’s inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.”

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.

I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local – the logic of sun and wind is diffuse and spread out, not concentrated like the logic of coal and oil.

The media … is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.

Humanity must accept that the food, the raw materials, the energy, the scientific knowledge and so on, belongs to everybody, that it is given by Divine providence for all peoples, the rich nations and what are called the developing nations.

I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

I don’t want to be a leader. I want to be one who goes around with a little oil can and offer help when I see a breakdown.

So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.