Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

Secrets...are the very root of cool.

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there must be limits to growth. But if publishing is expanding to fill that retail space, it seems like there may be a necessary and unpleasant correction waiting down the road. How many books to people WANT?

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