When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

None of our achievement matters, than how we have lived our lives.

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

Ex-D-boy, used to park my Beamer Now look at me, I can park in my own arena

No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.

The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.