We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.

We used to think, 'I have a feeling; I want to make a call.' Now our impulse is, 'I want to have a feeling; I need to send a text.'

Thumbs up or thumbs down on a website is not a conversation. The danger is you get into a habit of mind where politics means giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to a website. The world is a much more complex place.

What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?

It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.

If we don't teach kids how to be alone, they will end up only lonely.

We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.