It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home.

The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed.

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

I think that the collectible ephemera craze/awareness is probably driven by a reverse market, rebounding off the sense of everything being mass-produced. It's the last step you take in trying to find something unique.

People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.