You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.

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.

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.