If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.

The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order?

There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense.

We human beings are created and yet we are more rational than the creator himself who spawned us.

I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, "You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to.

Please don't continually say I'm paranoid.Why?It makes me paranoid.

Faced with delicate issue, consider kindness and deference. It's neither familiarity, indifference nor ire, but a perceived warmth to another soul

...graced by some delicate, perceptive and fine-boned writing, is at the heart of the book, and Creel gets it all just right.

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

The population of earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called "LinkedIn."

Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.

Americans don't really think that other places are as real as America.

I think everybody you know, we all have a sense of humor and I'm not one to take myself too seriously.

Let's put research into the hands of legitimate scientists, not pot profiteers.

A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.