It's hard to judge literary merit.

My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don't. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records.

I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.

Please don't think that I am one of those squishy types who can't handle reality. I have plenty of real-world things to deal with all the time. I have deadlines, meetings, I answer the phone, I get turned down, I wait in lines and am forced to pass for normal all the time.

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.