The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.

I think all the simple things can and do still work - holding your child's hand while walking across the street will do it. But we can hardly hear it for all the noise which has turned love into a cliche, and most people can't even hear John Lennon's "All You Need Is Love" anymore without wincing.

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism.

We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.