“We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.”

“…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.”

“If machines knew as much about each other as we know about each other (even in our privacy), the ecology of machines would be indomitable.”

“The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.”

“We do too little feel each others' pain;
We do relax too much the social chain
That binds us to each other; slight the care
There is for grief in which we have no share.”

“we are drawn to each other like drops of water, like the planets we repulse each other like magnets, like the color of our skin.”

“We'd been raised to survive, to meet challenges, and to chase our dreams. … And we don't only love each other, but like each other as well.”

“It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.”

“Once they knew each other it was more difficult, because it is difficult to love those we know well. To be in love is to be curious. A thing is only beautiful if we do not have surfeit of it, perhaps only what is new is beautiful; in any case we can only love what is new. In order to love people we have got to know too well, we must first of all forget them, not altogether but very nearly. This they learnt during the fortnight. They didn't tell each other that they had learnt it; they were careful, that is, untruthful. To be able to love someone a long time one must lie, quite often to oneself, but mostly to the person one loves.”

“None of us would ever wish the evil that was done on September the 11th. Yet after America was attacked, it was as if our entire country looked into a mirror and saw our better selves. We were reminded that we are citizens, with obligations to each other, to our country, and to history. We began to think less of the goods we can accumulate, and more about the good we can do.”