“When have we required anything of you? Except to survive?”
“A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.”
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”
“Every living thing requires love to survive for without it, we die.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.”
“We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.”