The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature.

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

Technology favors horrible people.

The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.

Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.

I don't remember where I was before I was born, why should I be worried about where I go after I die?

We then return our gaze to the mirror-boxed future-towns circling us-the hard drives of our culture, where the human tribe is making flesh its deepest needs and fears; teaching machines to think; accelerating the pace of obsolescence; designing new animals to replace the animals we've erased; value adding; reconstructing the future.