What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.

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.

There's nothing special about this place, he thinks. We all forget. Then we forget what we forgot. And that's how we survive.

I do not want to bring anything when I die, my knowledge should be shared with this world.

People kept asking, Whats your market? Ive got no idea at all other than me, an eleven year old kid in a 56-year-old body. But there are a lot of us out there.

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

I know the city and the club, and I can tell you that when you play for Manchester United at Old Trafford, you no longer need to see the sunshine every day.

When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music.

Whatever will happen will happen. You either face it as a coward or you face it as a hero.

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.

We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.