I think that if the novels task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life – technology and science. – Richard Powers
The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months. – Treat Williams
Will… the threat of common extermination continue?… Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? – Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 1979
