Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

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.

If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.

The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Celebration is life's frosting: isn't frosting the very best part of the cake?

Nobody understands how hard it is, being a captain.

Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party.

Love is the most powerful weapon on the face of the earth.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness, and it is everywhere and in all things.