This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing this.

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors.

If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.

she was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really looked like.

You see more sitting still than chasing after.

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.