What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.

It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.

The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.

A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.

We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about the way the internet is changing us.

In popular books and articles, information technology writer Carr has worried over the ways that algorithms like those employed by Google are reshaping the ways we think.

The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.

Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

Life is about making tough choices. Sometimes you have to go where your career is going.

I never face the day without perfume.

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

Let the past not be forgotten. Let the lessons not be in vain.

America is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability.

Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.