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.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.

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

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

Everything interests me.