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

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic

I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human.

Facts, even false ones, cannot be copyrighted.

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.