Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.

I was brought up with the sense that I was absolutely no different from my brothers. I went to college thinking I was absolutely no different from the men in college. But that's not true. I'm fundamentally different. The problem was not being able to understand difference and equality at the same time. It's something that we can't seem to comprehend. You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. It's a mistake.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'

150 years ago in [Charles] Dickens's time there was at least a sense of craft. So some of the things people had inside of them, they had the possibility of expressing in the making of things - even in a daily way with their clothes or their food. People made a good deal of both themselves. Now our daily lives are almost all consumption. Craft plays a tiny role.