Today, the media handle information as if it was a religious artefact.

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.

In England I would rather be a man a horse a dog or a woman in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

No one has ever overdosed on encouragement.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

Enthusiasm cannot be a continuous state. It comes in waves.

I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.

Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.

To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

[My mother] wanted to go as deep as possible into the world of religion. And that took her into Judaism.