The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.

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.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

I want to look into a mirror that will love my own reflection harder than I hate myself.

Do every act of your life as if it were your ultimate.

Dreaming's great as long as you wake up now and again

I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.

In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it.

I’m a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don’t need training – they just are.

All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.