The early settlers amazed her--they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured servitude. People worked the land and died in ungainly ways. Modern life, in comparison, seemed a cinch.

All history is modern history

The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic signal. A man squatted to relieve himself behind the discreet shelter of a satellite dish. An electric forklift truck was being used to unload goods from an ancient wooden cart with wooden wheels. The impression was of a plodding indefatigable and distant past that had crashed intact through barriers of time into its own future. I liked it.

This is the largest blackout in U.S. history, ... If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.

This is revolutionary in the history of skiing and it's very exciting.

Today day everyone is in a simulation,staying in their own lane never getting out of formation.