'The anthropocene' refers to the way we live now, in a highly globalized world, characterized by a large human population and powerful technologies that allow for "action at a distance" that aggregate apparently negligible acts into powerful forces that are transforming fundamental planetary systems. In this sense 'the anthropocene' refers to a period in which nature as an independent autonomous domain comes to an end or is under serious threat.
All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place. The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well. And, that's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well. Don't write about that which you don't know.
The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.
Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.
If you optimize for money too early, you will be minimizing for learning, almost without exception.
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.
There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.
I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.
Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.
In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.
We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.