Everything that enchants may be said to deceive.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.

Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear.-Sonia

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.

I'm just going to try to hit the ball hard. If it's going out of the park, that'll be OK.

I'm more of a rodeo type guy.

Relationships are like a book, in that they are for learning.

In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

Women have their uses for historians.

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.