I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.

If anything, the impact of digital technology is creating bigger brands and bigger superstars.

An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.

One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.