You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

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.

The west is broken into bars Of orange gold and gray Gone is the sun come are the stars And night infolds the day.

I don't like 'cool telly.'

Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.

I think it's miraculous that anybody survives themselves.

[John] McCain has never ripped into [Barack] Obama the way he rips into [Donald] Trump or other Republicans.

But I know in my heart what I'm doing is right.

For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself.