I can't say I know how to change the society, but I share the feeling that this society is full of technology which depersonalizes people, which seems to drain a sense of reality from our lives. It's full of a lot of other things too.

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.