Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

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.

I’ll never second guess the things that I have done. I’ve got too much left to say and too much to become.

Believe in true beauty and the power of a loving smile because it can reveal the ultimate magic of life.

Never let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present.

Growing old - it's not nice but it's interesting.

My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it.

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars.