I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about two years for this clumsy mechanism to get and try to sell us The Monkees. In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since. The scene in Seattle that Nirvana came from: as soon as it had a label, it was on the runways of Paris.There's no grace period, so that's a way in which I see us losing the interstitial.