She is increasingly of the opinion that worrying about problems doesn't help solve them, but she hasn't really found an alternative yet. Surely you can't just leave them there.

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.

The real strength of a man is not in the size of his muscles, but in the size of his heart.

The joy is in remembering

And the truth from so much lies.... wasn't ever told...

Talking too much too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.

I won't eat anything green.

I wear the chains I forged in life.

When you choose the path, you choose the destination.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences

Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.

I've never read one book about my father.