We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.

Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.

His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.

The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.

Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late.

There is really no end to life's little humiliations.

A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength.