Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Americans have discovered fear.

This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.