You can get in a cab in Vancouver and the 20-year-old driver speaks more knowingly of Michael Ovitz than anyone in the industry. They just know! And it's perhaps not unhealthy.

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.

In the light, our hearts only knows love.

When God says He got you, you're got. And you can't be un-got.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.

We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.

The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.

Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.

Of all the jobs I've had, sliming fish was pretty good preparation for life in Washington.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

Like many others, I sometimes find that cooking can be naturally grounding.