We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.
Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.
As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.
The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the same jazz music I listened to when I was eighteen years old, and like and admire it just as much.