Some people dote on contemplating disasters.

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.

Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

If the human race wants to go to Hell in a basket technology can help it get there by jet.

It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!

Corruption can only prosper with a people's ignore-ance.

My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.

In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.

I'd much rather sit next to a smoker in a restaurant than a nose-blower.

I do believe that our climate is changing. I don't agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity.

A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.

I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.