When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.

Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

You just go on your nerve.

Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.

Work is a form of service to God.

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

If you argue against reality you will suffer.

The way your life plays out depends on which dominoes you chose to push over and which ones you leave alone.

I'm not even fifty yet, but I still feel like Instagram and Spotify - I'm trying to stay with it! It's not easy. The world is going so fast.

I have never been a communicant.

A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.

About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.