We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

Christ, what an imagination I've got!

It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?