The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN and The Pentagon.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.

How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?

Images contaminate us like viruses.

Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

Leaders lead by serving.

As Americans, we must protect our humanity while fighting terrorism. It we lose that…they have surely won.

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through time, so I accept that.

It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.

The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.

Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach.

[Never underestimate] the power of dinner.

I have a weakness for tough guys who read." - Izzy Spellman

Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.