I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.

Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.

Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.

I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.

One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?

I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.