"Time moves in one direction, memory in another."

"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information."

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."

"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts."

"I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'"

"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions."

"When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments."

"Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving."