Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.

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.

A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.

If you do not express your own original ideas if you do not listen to your own being you will have betrayed yourself.

I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.

Jest not with the eye or with Religion.

It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

I see architecture as a form of communication over time.

By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering.

I believe if you work really hard and follow what you want to do in life that that combination - I believe in it. You need to take risks.