I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

Only the great power of love can make you great.

Adopt the positive in everything you do, for there will always be positivity there to find, if that is what you seek.

Character trumps circumstance every time.

You know everyone loves a palace.

Faith is Hope on a treadmill. Love is the reason we stay on.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

I have a good time watching Nick At Night with the old shows on there. I love to see I Love Lucy, although I've seen them many, many times. I think it's a security factor, it's like your blanket.

Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.