this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence.

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g.

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator.

He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs."One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right".

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

An idea for a story can be anything. The sky is not the limit, the limit is beyond it.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.

I will never turn to God.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

The Navajos have a saying they live by: 'A land where there is time enough and room enough.' I want that, too.

Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.