Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.

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 heightened sanity of science and the sheer lunacy of magic. It's in the area where they overlap that we both are able to find... ecstasy!

Good to know: Doctors can't cure you of being a beast.

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

You cannot pray them out of hell.

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

I don't get paid what people think I get paid for fighting.

Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.

Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become destruction.