There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

The experience of celebrity is gradually being democratized.

I've always been interested in people who aren't from anywhere in particular. I think it's all melting. This has been true for as long as I can remember in my adult life.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.