A woman in her late sixties described her new iPhone: "it's like having a little time square in my pocketbook. All lights. All the people I could meet.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.

Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

I would not have imagined that love himself would have such a fatal blow this.

It is unnecessary to spoil your precious involvements with a person with some word. We cannot name and express every human relationship or feeling, and we confine our involvements by naming them.

Of all the things you said I couldn't doforgetting you has been the easiest...

Love is a funny thing. It’s not at all what you expect it to be. But if you have to stand out on the corner to prove it, then maybe it’s better not to be in love at all." - excerpt from: freefalling

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick

Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.

Allow love to fill the places where anxiety now resides.