It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.

But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.

This made her remember why people take up walking: It is because they no longer have anywhere to go.

I think this is the kind of thing where we're rapidly moving toward an age where most of the populace will be almost unable to imagine life without an Internet component interlocked with it.

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.

The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life.

Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?