Millennium Three, please learn, and learn fast, that the regimented years whisk us off fast enough, as do antagonisms of chance, want, hunger, crime, fire, flood, earthquake, and killing winds. Nature’s own bedevilments—the virus, the malevolent gene, the stumbling heart, take enough prisoners without gratuitous war.

“Memos to a New Millennium” broadcast December 31, 1999 on NPR