We know so little about the future that to worry about it would be the height of foolishness.
I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.
Clark Terry is an American Master. I love to listen to him, particularly 'Mumbles. ' I was so delighted when we received degrees together, along with Edward Kennedy, at the New England Conservatory in 1997.
At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.
The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that.
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.