I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

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

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

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

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

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

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