Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.

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.

To preserve what you have, to keep your relationships alive and glowing, give generously- give of your time, you assets, your attention, your help, and your love. Give of yourself.

No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.

We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole.

Music isn't about music, it's about life.

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.