I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.

I am of the opinion, and have been for a long time, that any kind of big technological move is almost always positive in the short term but inevitably somewhat negative in the long term. And I think there are many examples of this in every possible context.

Technology evolves faster than people do, faster than biology does.

This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.