EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the surplus that supports the entire enterprise.

... the future is under no obligation to wait patiently while we get ready for it.

There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.

Authenticity is about where it comes from; validity is about whether it works.

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

Chic rarely bothers to leave the Rue De Faubourg Saint-Honore.

Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?

Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time

What an annoying mad thing love is!

For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death.

The spirit is the true self.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.