The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society.

Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.

We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.

The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.

I don't think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people.

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.

If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.

Worldliness proposes objectives which demand no radical breach with man's fallen nature

There is no present or future only the past happening over and over again now.

Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.

What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love.

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

I'm paid to make an idiot out of myself. Why do you do it for free?

Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few?

If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.

I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.