Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.
The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it's easy for me to travel.
One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.
Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
Human uploads have such a natural advantage over present-day people in the environment of space, it's exceedingly unlikely flesh-and-blood beings will ever engage in interstellar travel.
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.
Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.
Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.
There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.
I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.
If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity.
Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.
I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I've always thought it isn't that different from everybody else's.
To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
The Iranian people, with regards to the policies of various American administrations in the past 30 years, are very worried. They don't trust them.
