Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written.

All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn't find a speck of language lurking below the surface.

Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.

I don't have a readership, I have a thinkership. I guess this is why what I do is called "conceptual writing." The idea is much more important than the product.

Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

I've been trolled lots. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.