All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site..

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in..

He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND..

The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet..

Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader..

He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can t….

Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her phone..

Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a books….

So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as ….

When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?.

Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the th….

Then: I google "time-series visualization" and start work on a new version of my model, thinking that maybe I can impress her with a prototype. I am ….

So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that happened without me during the ….

I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message..

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time..

After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast down a dark lonely street.….

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight….