Technology - with all its promise and potential - has gotten so far beyond human control that its threatening the future of humankind.

It bears emphasizing: our traditional ways of thinking have ignored - and virtually made invisible - the relationship between people and technology.

From her perch more than a kilometer aboveground, she surveys the city that never sleeps, glittering and coruscating in the rain like a metaphor for her glamorous life.

The only thing that's doing well in America is the stock market.

I had to be happy with the process of writing.Each step you take is more rewarding than the one before.

I've got more than enough for my needs [for social life in Moscow], let's put it that way.

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

The more heart, the more sorrow.

Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.