Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.

It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.

People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.

Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.