Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.

Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility.

There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.

No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation.

No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.

I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.