Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.

I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.