You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

People don't like to talk about death because it makes them sad.

It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.

I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared.

I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink.