My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

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.

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

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.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.

Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.

Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

The regional voice is the universal voice.

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

I took benzedrine - I got clairvoyance. With benzedrine you can have a very wide view of the world, like you can decide the destiny of man and other pressing problems, such as which is the left sock?

I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally write minor notes for record albums and occasional articles.

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.