Every passing year brings us more past futures.

The past is a kind of future that has already happened.

Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?