The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.

Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.

Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.

it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.

Why aren't we investing more in alternate tech? The Saudi Arabians are, Scottish Power is. I was just there. Could it be that we're counting on the oil going on forever and ever and ever and us having all of it and getting very rich?

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.