Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.
Women - why aren't you running the world yet? Frankly I'm disappointed in you. Men are still far too dominant for their own good, and consequently we've made a testosterone-sodden pig's ear of just about everything: politics, the economy, religion, the environment. . . you name it, it's in a gigantic man-wrought mess.
When you look at things like social media, that's an immensely powerful tool that I'm all in favor of. I think it's amazing. It's a powerful tool, and it's one that we're, as a species, still grappling with learning to use. It's like we've grown an extra tail and we inadvertently lash out and knock over all of the furniture.
The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.
I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.
When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.
When you expect the best you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.
I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.
And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.