I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.

Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell them, and never inform the author/their agent/their publisher just trousering the money. I think we can agree that this was piracy?

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.