Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.

We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living

In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?

If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.

Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.

Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.

What life means has individual answers for each of us.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

As I was telling my husb — As I was telling President Bush.

If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

I'm genuine and people can believe what I say.

The day the process of acting becomes something that I dread is the end. Obviously, why would you do something that you hate? I won't do that.

I'm not big with an audience; I get very nervous.

Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.

In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.