The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.
The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.
My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.
Hello Kitty will never speak.
American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.
A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.
We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.
