I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

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.

With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night’s sky.

She’s a serial kisser. I think her parents are French.

You have to be an optimist to be in politics.

When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?

When we think in the context of the last decade's infringements upon personal liberty and the last year's revelations, it's not about surveillance. It's about liberty.

The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one of their favorite songs of all time.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.

I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time.