Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.

We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.

My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the earth. And all these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data, if that helps to clinch the enormity of what I'm talking about, would be gone. And that's what immortality means. It means selfishness. My generations belief that each one of us matters more than you or anyone else would think.

It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.

I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.