Jason Scott Montoya

“The most important number is 12%. That’s the share of Americans who say they have zero close friends, up from 3% in 1990. Meanwhile, half the country says they’re struggling with loneliness. These numbers took off when Apple put computers in our pockets, and they’ve been climbing ever since.”

"Flaws in the system will now become severe."

- Ian Malcolm

"In my community of Holocaust survivors, there were two groups; those who didn't die and those who came back to life.

And those who didn't die lived often very tethered to the ground, could not experience pleasure, could not trust, because when you're vigilant, worried, anxious, and insecure, you can't lift your head to go and take off in space and be playful and safe and imaginative.

Those who came back to life were those who understood the erotic as an antidote to death. They knew how to keep themselves alive." - Esther Perel

"A crisis of desire is often a crisis of imagination." - Esther Perel

Strand: This won’t end well, Madison. You think it’ll just be this one thing. But then you realize you can’t stop. I learned it the hard way. At the Tower. There was always just one more thing that I needed to do to keep it safe, and before I knew it, I was the thing people needed to be protected from.

S8: E11 “Fighting Like You”