I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, "Whoah! What's that?" that I have with Japanese popular culture.

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.

It shouldn’t surprise us…to find that prayer is not finally about getting things from God, but getting God.

Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back.

Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonable show a much more subdued picture.

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

I shall hear in heaven.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.