There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.

Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.

The one thing I've discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions of people are online who have been waiting for exactly the question you fire off.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.