I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

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.

You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think of the bruises.

You can still do all the same things. How you do them is what will shift.

So that's the challenge, you have a big technical aspect of what you're doing whilst you're creatively trying to improvise.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

~My favorite thing about my son is that he comes home from school and the clothes go flying! Like, clothes off, right down to the undies.~

The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

I pretty much stay true to myself and try to find the good in people and not be snarky.