More voices means less trust in any given voice.

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.

Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

The Google self and the Facebook self, in other words, are pretty different people. There's a big difference between "you are what you click" and "you are what you share.

Personalized filters play to the most compulsive parts of you, creating "compulsive media" to get you to click things more.

We need to retrain our brains, our hearts, and our wills to seek a comfort that truly satisfies.

Think, think.

As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.

Ken Jeong might be my biggest fan.

I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT CRITICS, LIKE I SAID THEY DONT BUY TICKETS.

I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public.

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it