In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft can make a living out of trying to figure out what he said. Course perhaps he really haden't said anything, that's what makes it so hard to explain.
I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.
It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet. "
It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.
If the shoe fits you're lucky.
Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.
When Columbus took off, the purpose was to improve trade relations with China. That problem has not been solved to this very day, but just look at the by-products.
If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.
Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.
I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.
Fish and guests in three days are stale.
I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.
To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.
All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.
We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.
The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds.
One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.
