I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.

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.

Change is the mother of growth and maturity.

Such a shovel, it seemed a waste not to use it.

I say 'come with it.' I'm not expecting anything easy. You have to earn your place. That's fine with me.

Sepp Blatter and all of them lot Mr Platini I know he was a good player but he aint very good at what he does, I don’t think. I think he’s useless you can quote me on that.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.