It's true that climate change is an unprecedented problem so it's not surprising that it's so difficult to address.

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.

Anything other than death is a minor injury.

I have this idyllic love life, but my mind just won't accept that. I would like to bring a new guy home every night. I try to make humor out of that situation.

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.

No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?

I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.

A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.