If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.