It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.

Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose.

...She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.

Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly, we click the mouse and a machine confirms our sense of mastery.

But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.