Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.

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.

We, humans, easily associate every Good with God and every bad with devil, ignoring the fact that God is the creator and origin of everything.

Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.

Unlike last year, we're not just happy to be here in the Finals

He strode to the wall and tore aside one of the velvet hangings. “You want to tell me what this is?” he demanded. “It’s a door, Jace,” said Clary.

And there are times that you got to speak up, and you’ve got to call things what they are!

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean, it's such a solo endeavour.

Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars