One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body - any change is for the worse. And if there is to be change, then he wants it to happen quickly, so it does not use up too much of the time remaining to him.

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.