In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.

The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.