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.

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch.

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.