It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

Fate has given you a chance of stepping out of your comfort zone. Take the trip. (Aunt Eve talking to Febronia)

Laughter is like crying.

Boredom looms over the liveliest lessons, seeking to destroy.

Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.

I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past.

You can't get away, I can't fill my car up at a gas station without Coors Light, Bud Light, Corona, whatever, it's just the way it is.

I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.

The problem with movies now is that studios don't take a chance.

Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.