I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain, ” she says. “Not books.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?

People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they'll believe you.

He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.

Now, for the first time in my life, I empathize 100 percent with Fluff McFly. My heart is beating at hamster-speed and I am throwing my eyes around the room, looking for some way out.

A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.

He may take long walksin the raining darkalmost aimlesslyto a spot of soaked grassin a neighbor’s open field.He’s decided this is the placefor you and him to meet again.

At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.

Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany.

Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.

To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

You can't get away, I can't fill my car up at a gas station without Coors Light, Bud Light, Corona, whatever, it's just the way it is.

We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.