Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

We can do more than we imagine by the power of the Holy Spirit.

BRAVETo be brave is to behavebravely when your heart is faint.So you can be really brave only when you really ain't.

As dad would always say, when in doubt- play for time.

That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy.

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.