How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly free.

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.

Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.

It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.

You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.

Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are.

I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they refer to nothing.

I've been trolled lots on Twitter. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.

Employment leaves you distracted

You have the here and now. You have a future. Deal with the past so you can stop looking back. It's just the pain.

The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.

Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.

Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm.

I try to be appreciative of what I have instead of bitter about what I’ve lost.

I take myself seriously and want my image to me more than just something aesthetically suited towards selling records.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Noel Coward said work is more fun than fun, but then he didn't work in the Bird's Eye factory packing frozen fish fingers nine hours a day, did he?

I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.