Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

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.

A person living in everyone else's style reacts only to stimulus

I looked at Vicki. My beautiful Vicki. My dream. My love. My life.

If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

This feels like a Steve Bannon whispering in [Donald Trump's] ear.

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.

If you want a successful marriage, let your husband do what he wants to do.

I'm so lucky. I've met a lot of famous people.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.