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

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.

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.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.