CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am.