There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but I see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us.

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president?

May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

[Tim White] always spoke about his work in terms of forensics, as if he was investigating a crime scene. While we were there, they found the fossilized excrement of a lion that had turned into stone, and we would immediately start to concoct stories. Was it a lion that killed the early human? Of course, the lion could've been there three weeks later, or maybe 20,000 years earlier.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.