When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.

In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water.

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.