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" I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting. "

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" I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. "

" I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road. "

" I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. "

" Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics. "

" Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people. "

" It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. "

" Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you. "

" I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked. "

" I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often. "

" You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff. "

" I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there. "

" You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher. "

" You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time. "

" But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos. "

" They took my mother's stomach out six months ago. "

" I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. "

" I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City. "

" The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out. "

" I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness. "

" It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there. "

" If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise. "

" I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for. "

" It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur. "

" I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. "

" The house is a factory. "

" Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. "

" I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues. "

" To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. "

" The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before. "

" You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist. "