I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

You act like there are two kinds of girls,' she said. 'The smart ones and the ones that boys like.

I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.

How do you not like the Internet? That's like saying, 'I don't like things that are convenient. And easy. I don't like having access to all of mankind's recorded discoveries at my fingertips. I don't like light. And knowledge.

She didn't know there were things worse than selfish.

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.