A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.

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.

Whatever happens in your life, make a promise to yourself that you will never give up your ability to dream.

Gratitude is the key to wealth and abundance, so learn to be grateful in all things.

Every growth on this planet is at the cost of loss to some one. No one can deny it or proove it wrong.

The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're not always taking things for granted.

Statistics do not speak for themselves.

A lot of blues guitarists play with only three fingers, and they can't figure out certain runs that require the use of their little fingers. Classical training is good for that.

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.