Her self lagged behind her anger, like a mother picking up after a destructive child.

Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation.

Horror is the awakening of repressed knowledge, something that you have known all along but kept at the periphery of awareness so that life can go on.

Humans make tools. Some animals make tools too. The making and using of tools is important for developing language, how we think and speak. If we do not make anything, it affects our thinking.

If you said to me, “I do not love, I have never loved, ” then you would sound incomplete. Equally, if you say “I do not hate, I have never hated, ” then you sound like half a man.

Exhaustion is a thin blanket tattered with bullet holes.

It is in his obsessions that mankind most closely resembles his machines.

Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.

We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

The window is closing.

We are going backwards in a field that’s supposed to be all about moving forward

There has been no warming over 18 years.

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.