I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.

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.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

I can do this, I lied to myself feebly. No one was going to bite me.

Memories are those endless treasures, which we can keep exploring till eternity and bask in their glory like a slow swinging hammock!

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

I eat really healthy, and if I'm tired, I take a nap.

Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

A peaceful mind generates power.

When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.

Courtesy and good-humour are often found with little real worth.