"It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing."

"Arguably most people are not generally intelligent, because they don't have to solve problems that make them generally intelligent. ...t's not yet clear if we are smart enough to build AI and understa…"

"The wreck of the Titanic functions as a sublime object: a positive, material object elevated to the status of the impossible Thing. And perhaps all the effort to articulate the metaphysical meaning of…"

"If not in life, certainly in this administration."

"I was born about a quarter of a mile from where we are sitting now and I was here in London during the Blitz. And every night I went down into the shelter. 500 people killed, my brother was killed, my…"