The present tense made him nervous.

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.

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.

If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.

I'm happy with my language progress - the only difficulty when I tour Premier League matches is that different people talk to me in different accents - and sometimes I can hardly understand a word!

Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

Hustle is the most important word--EVER.

Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.

In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered.