She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.

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.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

When you have defined yourself, circumstances don’t define you – they only refine you.

I'm fully aware that 'Doctor Who' will always, always be part of my life, and that's not something I would run away from in the slightest. I wear it with pride, definitely.

If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as long as it means trouble for the landlord.

I do love to perform. And I'm ever so grateful that this has turned into a job with a future.

I have a vision for living. It's about elements of style. It's about all the things that I love, that I believe in.

At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were.

Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.