When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not going be what you hope it can be.

We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.

Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.

I believe that by releasing "passing interest/low keepsake-value literature" from the burden of physicality, you are actually releasing the words from their worst liability: the price and inconvenience of actual bookness.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.

Once you're out in a place where there's one sheriff for the county, people have to learn how to get along with each other and that means going to the dump illegally and dumping your garbage and hoping the guys don't call you on it and being terrified of this to your core until you realize after many years that the guys at the dump don't really care where your garbage is coming from.