I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become glorious, in…

- Virginia Heffernan

There's always something in new technology that promotes anxiety on the one hand, but also grieving on the other. With the internet, I think we can r…

- Virginia Heffernan

Unless you are rich, and can con vales center in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to found you ato your easel) …

- Virginia Heffernan

People act as if the internet will never die, that the Cloud will never die. In the face of that, much of human civilization, including our human bod…

- Virginia Heffernan

When I first got on the internet as a tween, I wasn't comfortable showing up in social spaces. I didn't have a loud voice. As a function of my youth …

- Virginia Heffernan

I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.

- Virginia Heffernan

If beauty is only skin deep, look really, really hard.

- Virginia Heffernan

One of the paradoxes that makes the internet such a suggestive place is that, on the one hand, we perceive it as perpetually in motion and changing, …

- Virginia Heffernan