Margaret Heffernan

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.

If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.