For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things always strike me as simulacra of luxury items. They seem like fakes.

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.

How can you say you're not in love with

I want to marry this girl. I want to marry her now.

In a world in which everyone cheats, it's the honest man who passes for a charlatan.

Life is about love and as a country that stands united, we lose in the battle that we call love.

I don't feel like I have to live up to anything because I've proven that I can play. Give me the ball and let's go.

I was in Moscow and I will tell you - you can get along with those people and get along with them well. You can make deals with those people. Obama can't.

Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.

The fact that our largest presence in the world is our massive military is going to dictate how we engage with the world.

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.

I think our skin clears up and we're nicer when you are in love.