Quotes by Walter Kirn

I think people get a sense of possibility when theyre on a plane, even romantic possibility, wondering if the perfect person is going to sit down next to them or something.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

In America, to be IDd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of ones soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. Its not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.