As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.