(Via Quotation of the Day mailing list)

I think it’s still within our power — before social media and the internet completely slice our brains into tiny little packets of jelly that are only good for reading 40 words at a time and assimilating tiny bits of information — to realize that we’re losing something. And that it’s important to step back — to know ourselves better, to know the people around us better.

– Gary Shteyngart, novelist. By the way, I am currently reading Shteyngart’s first novel, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook. Terrific.