When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?

If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.

The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.