Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.

We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

Back in the late 1970's, when I was fifteen years old, I spent every penny I then had in the bank to fly across the continent in a 747 jet to Brandon, Manitoba, deep in the Canadian prairies, to witness a total eclipse of the sun.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.