The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available.

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Books are like tweets, except longer.

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and having conversations with knowledgeable people is immeasurably valuable and irreplaceable.