Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.

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.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

Who are my influences? Everybody.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

If you don’t know about Tumblr then you are not supposed to know about Tumblr. It’s like fight club.

This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom.

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.