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

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

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.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.