Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—

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.

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

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

Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.