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—

Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

None of us know our real names.

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.

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

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).