These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's reserves of perishable oil, which culminated in the False Tribulation, and the wars, and the plagues, and the painful dwindling of inflated populations to more reasonable numbers.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.

One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.

Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.

We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And the long and creditable history of science has taught us, if nothing else, to look carefully before we judge to judge, if we must, based on what we see, not what we would prefer to believe.

I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.