Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.

The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.

Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.