But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

By the time I'm 40 interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age anyway.

Every time I go and shave I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say 'I'm gonna go shave too.'

Technology is a wonderful tool but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits thoughts and feelings as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?