[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

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.

For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth bringsThat then, I scorn to change my state with kings.

A purpose is more like a positive daily-grind, with gratitude and a smile.

In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent.

Once you move in with your significant other, you have to become a combination of each other.

We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.

In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.

Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.

Marketing management is now tribal leadership.

Humans can think inhuman thoughts.

Business is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person