Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself.

I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists.

Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the world has a cure.

I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder.

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.

Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.