Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.

Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.

I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.

The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.

The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.