First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.

The invisible hand never picks up the check.

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.