I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.) Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.