(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.

So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that happened without me during the day. When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it’s actually you that’s time-shifted?

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.