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

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

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

Everything interests me.

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

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.

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.