Television can only destroy.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.

How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?

Images contaminate us like viruses.

Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

All husbands are alike but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

I co-founded the DNC Veterans and Military Families Council in 2005.

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

I like Americans, but they are somewhat monocellular. When I talk with Americans, I often wonder why they are so simpleminded.

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right

I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.