We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly.

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.

Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky you can see the stars and still not see the light.

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

I've been compared to people since the beginning. When you're starting out, you need a comparison so people will understand you right away.

If you put on an Oscar Wilde [play], it will interest those who are interested in Oscar Wilde. But it won't interest anybody else, because they won't get that wit.

Get rid of this bunkum about the 'carnal Christian'. Forget it! If you're carnal, you're not saved.

If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

I just feel in a lot of ways black people are so much looser and cooler. Just as a culture, it's so much more real.

There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual.

Might does not make right! Right makes right!

The Eurozone has clearly gone spectacularly wrong, pulling down all the continental economies.