I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.
Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most ...
I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.
I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.
I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them.
In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing it enough. You're not creating enough imaginary futures.
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.
They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.
But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.
Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.
The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.
The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.
