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

Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.

Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.

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

Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?" "I don't know." "I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning.

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.