Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.

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.

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

That's the trouble with Nick. The only time he opens his mouth is to change feet.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Please don't kill me!

You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you.

People are always asking, 'Is everything ok?' Look, I was not depressed, ok? I was just freaking exhausted.

My family is very traditional, Catholic.

Yeah, the main goal when I'm writing [movie scripts] is to entertain myself. It's supposed to be funny, but then a funny idea can be turned into something else.

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.