I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.

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.

If you count your blessings, you will know, they outnumber your troubles.

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

I am Jack's smirking revenge.

If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.

All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing. And usually that translates back to you.