There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.

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.

We are a noisy and blessed little family

Nature always accepts changes and never misses the opportunity to bloom.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.

If you do it properly, life is art, really.

You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.

I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.

We don't have a lot of Sikhs in France. We've got some. But we don't really hear much from them or about them. Which is good news.

Increasing your self-esteem is easy. Simply do good things and remember that you did them.

A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.