If you look at modern societies, I would say probably ninety percent of human energy is being spent either pursuing or avoiding sex.

We are all in a state of total distraction and diffusion, hardly able to keep our minds in one direction before we are pulled in a thousand others. The modern world's level of conflict is higher than ever, and we have internalized it in our own lives. The solution is a form of retreat inside ourselves, to the past, to more concentrated forms of thought and action.

The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.