Adulthood’s full of ghosts... High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.

If nothing else, it's pleasant to consider the possibility. He likes the thought of ships moving over the water, toward another world just out of sight.

The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?

Are you asking if I believe in ghosts?""I don't know. Maybe. Yes.""Of course not. Imagine how many there'd be.""Yes, " Kirsten said, "that's exactly it.

The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.

The more we know about the former world, the better we’ll understand what happened when it fell.

The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.

Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.

[Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have been unlawful and unconstitutional.

Poached eggs are good, poached animals are not.

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage.

I was really into R&B and stuff like that, so I really wanted to sing like Faith Evans or Mariah Carey. But I definitely don't have the skills to sing like that.