If it moves, privatize it, if it doesn't move, privatize it; since everything either moves or doesn't move, privatize everything.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

The world won't get more or less terrible if we're indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate.

I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.

In hell there's a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can't call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.

The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

When I fly, I never check my bags. I bring a carry-on, an eye pillow, noise-canceling headphones, a big pillow and a blanket.

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.