Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.

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.

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?

Some of them are working very hard indeed. “What are they doing?” “My boy!” he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious. “They are reading!

I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected

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

I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.