If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

History is a means of access to ourselves.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role model you need.

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

I am not a businessman. I am a business, man.

I do what I do because it seems to be critically missing in the world and I want to see it not-happen.

Do it because you love it. Then it’s not a job. I’m a geek. I love technology. I would be online working with technology regardless of what my day job is.

Al Qaeda has been placed on the run, but not destroyed.

This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.

Almost no one sings like Elvis Presley any more.

God will give you anything as long as you understand that he is the primary and not the secondary.