We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.

The amusements of broadcast consist mainly of songs, stories, and games, just as in tribal life. The songs and stories are mostly about courtship, the games mostly played by men, just as in tribal life.

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.

Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can.

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.