Random Analogies
"I was the first person I knew to have a cellphone in my car in 1983. At that point it was intriguing. Now I just see it as a ball and chain. I don't want to be that available to the world. I don't want to share every single thing I do. I look around the airport, and every single person is oblivious to the world around them. They don't live in the moment. I've made a conscious choice to not spend all my time ... looking down at a device. I refuse to do it. So there you have it. I'm a Luddite. But I'm a high-tech Luddite."
"Lately, I'm trying to get into the paragraph, because I feel that the paragraph is like a neglected species. There seems to be a whole cult of sentence worshippers out there and paragraphs are kind of slipping under the radar. So I've started collecting paragraphs and I'd like to do something with them at some point. There is a shape of the paragraph that is unique, too. Paragraphs can do things that sentences don't. It's almost the difference between a short story and a novel."
"The eosinophils are like the first line of defense of the blood. When they are stressed to their limits, the lymphocytes take over and rise."
