I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

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 world can't die. Many generations have thought the world was dying. But it was only their world which was dying.

The death of loved ones often awakens the death inside of us.

Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success—bigger than talent, money, or popularity.

Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugge

The tragedy of unfulfilling life is that you're already dead but no one pronounced you dead...

Where there's tea there's hope.

The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different people.