Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.

Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women's bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.