Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from your robot junkyard.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

You're either on the bus or off the bus.

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.

And - of course! - the Non-people. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to do this or that but they were determined to go ahead and do just that thing anyway.