Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth..

I don't have a readership, I have a thinkership. I guess this is why what I do is called "conceptual writing." The idea is much more important than t….

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 t….

I think that the special thing about radio is the off switch. If something's not pleasing you, turn it off..

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

It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening..

For me, Twitter is a public persona. It's UbuWeb or Kenneth Goldsmith (as opposed to Kenny Goldsmith). I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conver….

I often don't endorse what I tweet, rather I want to throw things about to spark conversation or controversy. What I think about something is not par….

I think it's time to admit that our writing is guided by the technology we use as much as it is by our own subjectivity..

It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelli….

Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists..

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 re….

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

Twitter is not art. But it inspires me in the way that art used to inspire me..

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

The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open ourselves ….

And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural artifact itself. What….

Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that has deep roots in moderni….

Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written..

All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where,….

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