I mean, sometimes we do do that, The National Anthem was a caustic satire and sometimes that's the way to go with the story rather than me being particularly misanthropic.

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.

You sort of perform your personality, I guess, to everyone on some level.

I'm not some anti-technology person. I think it's often how people would assume that if they don't know me.

In summary, our world is doomed.

What is useful about when there is a sort of pull-out to reveal moment going on is that it actually focuses the mind when you're writing the earlier scenes because you're thinking 'right, how do I? I can only show this amount of the room... I can only show these characters from the waist up because they've all got robot legs!' it's a challenge so it keeps you engaged on some level.

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.