The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.