Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

If we cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place ourselves in it in our imagination, we will not believe it is possible.

A whole new series of technologies like biotechnology, virtual reality, and super-computerization are appearing now that are leading us away from our nature-based roots.

The important thing is to go back to wholeness. It's time for human beings to come into a sustainable world.

People tend to personalize technology so they can't get to the systemic analysis. They say, "Oh, I can't give up my personal computer." Or, "I just love radio too much."

We always want to be going forward. It's scary to go back.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

I am proud of my work for my country.

Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?

Sometimes you even start to sound like the character, because you're living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets into your bones, it becomes a part of you.