You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.” “Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.

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.

Most of the world's problems will be solved if literacy prevailed.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.

Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.

Please don't kill me!

... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.

When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do.