It was hot, the night we burned Chrome.

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.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Most people don't cry when they're upset or frightened, but rather when they're frustrated. Your frustration is understandable. You've been through a most trying time." -Hodge

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

You can say things in a comedy that you never can say in a drama.

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.