“Thoreau's disobedience is disobedience as refusal. I won't live in your world. I will live as if your world has ended, as indeed it deserves to end. I will live as if my gesture of refusing your world has destroyed it.”

“I hope that Live Earth ends global warming the same way the Live Aid ended world poverty.”

“I don't want to live in your world in which 1 percent of the children are born defective."My answer was rather brutal, I fear. "It is not my world,”

“We are living in a world which seems to be founded on the refusal to reflect.”

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”

“Leave the world and live your life.”

“We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.”

“We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American president has been silenced”

“Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.”

“You must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds.”