People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or a switch away. Strangers were strange, and sometimes with an exciting, beautiful strangeness. It may be better for humanity that we should communicate more and more.

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as the best possible training. Those who are most successful in the state are those who have the most interest in prolonging the state as it is; they are also those who have the most say in the educational system, and in particular by ensuring that the educational product they want is the most highly rewarded.

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment.

Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.