It is no way to live, to wait to love.

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

A funny thing happened on the way to utopia: We've turned into this surveillance society and become a race of spies, where we track our kids and we track our spouses and we track our friends. I think very soon there will be an obsolescence of trust, because it's much easier to access a person's location than it is to ask - or to trust.

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?