His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

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.

So …” Jack clears his throat. “We …”Is Jack Coombs at a loss for words? I guess we don’t have to worry about the performance since the world is clearly going to end.

Don't needlessly draw attention to yourself. If you're twerking on the beach, a circling pteracuda could mistake you for a wounded animal.

Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road

We fall, but we get up because the ground is no place for a champion.

We need to remember who the enemy is, and then we need to eat them alive.

If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.