I think that I feel that I have no choice but to operate under the illusion, which may be a delusion, that we can somehow get past the destruction that we have brought and that we are causing today.

...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.

We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.

I think that as a society as well, we need to be smart about what technologies we take up and how construe progress.

I select my technology based on what I need and I also don't take up what I don't feel that I need.

I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as possible.

I don't have a cell phone. I am not a Luddite.

[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that boxiness and basically aeronautics hadn't been invented.

I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done since [Buckminster Fuller] death has really delved in that.

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.

You have the insanity that is geo-engineering which is a case in which you say the planet is heating up. Let's spray some aerosol and cool it down.

We may not choose apathy, but when we choose anything other than love and empathetic justice, we get apathy by default.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.

I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities.

The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.

The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.

As you embrace the process-oriented approach described in The Practicing Mind, you'll achieve better results in any endeavor.

I love having a little bit of bronzer of some sort and I love looking golden.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.