Will Self Quotes

I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment.

I'm an Internet junkie.

Google is addictive.

When you spend 12 hours a day in front of a computer, that can become your world.

I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.

Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.

I'm amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.

I was a huge Internet junkie.

Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.

You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

Oh, I'm online all the time now. I'm not an outdoorsy type.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Well, c'mon, everyone is a Facebook addict!

It's bizarre to have both a super-connected and disconnected world. Like, you can use Twitter in the most narcissistic way. Do people really need to know that I'm drinking a latte right now? It's so indulgent.

Sadly, I have disappointed the surveillance capitalists myself by not yet downloading 'Pokemon Go.' But I'm addicted to my phone enough as it is, and I don't necessarily need that helping hand.

I do not like not having Wi-Fi in general, but certainly not on a plane. I fall apart.

It's easy to blame technology for what we perceive to be a vast disconnect between people. We're so wrapped up in social media, texting, online dating - in many ways, we're addicted to our devices.

Online shopping makes everything so much easier - it's a bad habit of mine.

I am a sucker for Instagram shopping.

Everybody seems to be wasting their time online. There is such a narcissistic attitude. It's such a strange world.

I try not to spend too much time online but at the same time if I didn't, I'd be isolated.

Facebook has created a rash of mental zombies in a meme-feeding frenzy.

Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology.

We're in a society where no one's putting a gun to your head and making you use your phone, but some people start to crack. "I Want the Heartbeat" is about the downside of it. People can and do break up friendships and relationships because of the internet, and that can't be good. You have to find a balance. You can't let it be the boss of you.

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.