There's something beautifully soothing about a fact — even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means.

The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.

destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.

The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was not criticism but credulity. The Church Fathers observed that in the realm of thought only heresy had a history.

The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.