Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

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.

Encouragement and praISE SHOULD BE ENDLESS. fAUTH BRINGS THEM TOGETHER.

It is feeling and not reasoning that drives one to prayer.' -Emma to Charles

The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a whole agency to make a successful campaign.

American Dream Is Under Assault. People that haven't been able to find a job in months and this growing sense in this country that this is the new normal, well we can't accept that.

India to someone who lives in Lahore is like Queens to someone who lives in Lower Manhattan - it's not far away, and yet it doesn't exist.

Why are my least favorite people always the most durable?

I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

I think even probably the people we look up to the most, and think are on the Mount Olympus of actors - they're still experiencing nervousness.