The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.

Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.