There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.

We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.

The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.

I don't think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people.

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.

If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.

We don't need more stupid ideas.

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.

Dont want success, Deserve it !!!

I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they're trying to inject into a story.

It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ?

When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.

Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.