If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

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.

Life is magnificent and vivacious, but it is also fugacious.

A great purpose with great commitment can definitely create a great life with great value

You can actually overcome all the limitations of life and achieve your dreams, if you don't give up too early.

The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

Powdermilk biscuits: Heavens, theyre tasty and expeditious! Theyre made from whole wheat, to give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done

You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.

Children accept their world as the world. I grew up like kids that I went to school with. Their parents were either shrinks or actors.

If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them.

Hope is a pocket of possibility. I'm holding it in my hand.