On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves.

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

The cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending.

Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained.

Of course, the other thing about evolution is that anything can be said because very little can be disproved. Experimental evidence is minimal.

In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine 'love'. Coca Cola ads do much the same thing - and they don't take two hours.

Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of information: it's bits all the way down.

Science has taken away our religion.

Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet.

Sorrow's children were raised on books.

Come in, Martise." Silhara's voice was almost sibilant in the darkness as he tagged on her hand. "There are no soul eaters here." No, she thought. Only heart thieves.

When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.

While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense of the difference between socialism and capitalism.

She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

I learned from the guys before me - Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These are guys that let it all hang out. What they lived is what they took to the stage.

The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer

The nation is built upon the foundation of its homes and the home upon its families.