Dave Eggers

And then I'm usually ready to pretend to try to get something done.

And that's as much of a ritual as I've had.

I've never been

too much of a ritual person, but when I discovered reading in the morning, and I would recommend this to anybody, I would fall asleep at night, like reading at late at night at 10 minutes, I'd be asleep.

But in the morning, I'm sharp, coffee's coming on, three cups of coffee, an hour and a half of reading, and you just feel like the most Zen person alive.

I wish I'd discovered that.

30 years ago, I would have read a lot more.

It puts me in the exact right frame of mind.

And without it,

In the last few weeks, I had an internet connection.

That's a long story, but I usually don't.

But I've had one in the morning and I get online right away.

It's been a fucking disaster.

Just wretched.

I'm a totally different person, wasting time, stupid forums about nothing that matters.

At best, I'm watching old concerts, but it's just night and day.

And we realize if you do that to kids too, if you give them...

The choice or give them a connection with everything that's ever been in the world and every movie that was ever made, they're going to go there.

But if you set aside space and time and say this is our reading period or whatever, then they will use it.

But you have to do this stuff thoughtfully.