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

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.

I'm a Capricorn, actually.

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

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.

It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.

I never, ever thought I would be able to grow a beard like I have now. I think it's gonna be here for a little minute. Fear the beard, hopefully.

I have enjoyed writing songs for so long... it felt like in order to make music that I could relate to myself, I would have to be a part of the writing process.

As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential than before.

In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It is the artist who crystallizes his age ... who fixes his time in history.

Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.

If you believe in yourself you can make yourself whatever you want to be.

I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.

The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.

You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.