We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

I think that by the middle of this century people will still be eating meat (though less), and their meat will mostly be produced in factories through synthetic processes, cell cultures, and so on.

Tradition or not, I sometimes thought putting children on an old guy’s lap was already creepy enough. We didn’t need to mix alcohol into it.

Dating is no charge prostitution.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.

The foundation of a good relationship with intentions & goals is keeping in mind that the primary aim of setting and working toward them is to feel the way you want to feel.

We are not fountains ourselves; but the Word of God is the true fountain.

Countless forms make up this network. In this world, there are few of us.

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.

I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.

There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.