Surface

You can't be deep without a surface.
--Jonathan Lethem

Alone

We're all in this alone.

--Lily Tomlin

Interconnected

Simply put, contagion is a fact of life in our interconnected global economy and financial markets.
—Gretchen Morgenson

More Damaging

Having consumed most of the world's readily accessible oil, we are now compelled to look for fuel in ever more remote places, and to extract it in ever riskier and more damaging ways.
--Elizabeth Kolbert

Our Wealth

Immigrants are not our burden, they are our wealth.
--Jane Adams

Extend Ourselves

Ever since we picked up a stick to reach a higher branch, we have used technology to extend ourselves.
--Ray Kurzweil

Not Bad

I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
--Jessica Rabbbit

New Grammar

We often say, rightly, that literacy is crucial to public life: If you can't write, you can't think. The same is now true in math. Statistics is the new grammar.
--Clive Thompson

Comes Into

Joy comes into our lives when we have something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.
--Viktor E. Frankl

Bliss

If only I didn't know that ignorance is bliss, then, maybe, I could be happy.
--Shannon Wheeler

No Age

Youth has no age.
--Pablo Picasso

Isn't Being

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
--Peter Drucker

The Road

The road is our major architectural form.
--Marshall McLuhan

Our Way Of Life

Nothing has changed. When we get back to the politics of energy, oil and natural gas are essential to the economy and our way of life.
--Jack Gerard (president, American Petroleum Institute)

On Water

Walking on water wasn't built in a day.
--Jack Kerouac

All That Yearning

All that yearning and anguish and passion had been replaced by a steady pulse of pleasure and satisfaction and occasional irritation, and this seemed to be a happy exchange; if there had been times in her life when she had been more elated, there had never been a time when things had been more constant.
--David Nicholls

End Point

Hoarding can be a way of denying that there's an end point to your timeline or boundaries around your opportunities.
--Heather Havrilesky

Converse With Everything

Aborigines openly and unaffectedly converse with everything in their surroundings--trees, tools, animals, rocks--as if all things have an intelligence deserving of respect.
--Robert Lawlor

Epistemic Closure

One of the more striking features of the contemporary conservative movement is the extent to which it has been moving toward epistemic closure. Reality is defined by a multimedia array of interconnected and cross-promoting conservative blogs, radio programs, magazines, and of course, Fox News. Whatever conflicts with that reality can be dismissed out of hand because it comes from the liberal media, and is therefore ipso facto not to be trusted.
--Julian Sanchez (research fellow, Cato Institute)