There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

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.

In time of poverty, you alone face is your fate. If your spirit is stronger enough, you will survive.

If you want to see God, simply look into the eyes of an animal.

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

What is public opinion? It is private indolence.

Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.

I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.

You entrust your money to banks, God entrusts His money to you. How would you feel if the bank took your money and used it to play the lottery or gamble with it? So, how does God feel?

Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.