Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.

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

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.