Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.

The key is to produce something that both pulls people together and gives them something to do.

Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.

Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.

In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information

We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other.

...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead

Our focus should not be on emerging technologies, but on emerging cultural practices.

Not “Revelation” – tis – that waitsBut our unfurnished eyes –

Do I have to give you hair torture to get it out of y

I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?

It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?

Love is beyond time or rather love is both time and space but all focused on one single constantly evolving point-the Aleph.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail.

I find it's usually the bullies who are the most insecure.