Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

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.

Shine your light, you will inspire others to radiant their inner light.

Good night - may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream, so beautiful, you'll cry when you awake.

It seemed at moments, when I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down the meet the sea and some great secret was to be revealed.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.

There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one.

Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes.

Truth has to fall on fertile soil.