I'm a Capricorn, actually.

Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from... from... wait, what was I saying?

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.

There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?

Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.

It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force.

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

I don't have dating tips.

What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.

Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.

Have a short memory and a lot of forgiveness. Especially us girls who don't forget a thing. Move on.

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about an unfortunate bone structure and a healthy head of hair.

I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.

Our job is to translate the lies, deceit, and anxiety that poisons our cultural water supply into an understandable form that we can digest.

To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.

I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession for 2013.

He who wants to win the world for Christ must have the courage to come in conflict with it.