“If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.”

Look – every time is the wrong time and the perfect time to have a kid, and you just do it when you can.

The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

I don’t spend a huge amount of time fixated on climate denial because I don’t think that their objections, though sometimes couched in science, are based in science. I think they’re based in ideology. And I don’t think there’s anything you can do.

We’d like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.

The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they’re doing it for more reasons than we are.

Very few people on earth ever get to say: ‘I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.’ If you’ll join this fight that’s what you’ll get to say

I did very much like [Barack] Obama’s attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations and petitions, and now we’ll try to push it forward.

No one is strong enough – given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game.

I’m guessing the most efficient way would be to transfer an awful lot of technology, but also direct aid to deal with climate emergencies already underway. Hillary [Clinton] has already said $100 billion a year would be appropriate.

To me the analogy [to climate change] is… doctors worry a lot about cholesterol. And if you go to the doctor, and the doctor says “oh, your life would be happier if you ate a different diet and exercised” people pay no attention.

The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism because the battle is fully joined, and the idea that big oil is unbeatable is no longer true.

I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth’s atmosphere at the moment.

It now appears that the fracturing of that ice is happening much more quickly than people previously thought, apparently at a slow melt.

According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually

We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.

Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms of consumption. The other is the incredible iniquity between poor countries and rich countries on this planet.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Everything else is relative levels of hell.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.

Even when I was a kid, everything I had was the best.

Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

Everything I’ve been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.