It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.

While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.

A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.