I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

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.

The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.

Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.

Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.

I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.

Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets.

A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.

The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.

Conservatism as an "ism" is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party.