The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.

This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.