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

Online you're encouraged to perform one personality for everyone.

I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical.

When you look at things like social media, that's an immensely powerful tool that I'm all in favor of. I think it's amazing. It's a powerful tool, and it's one that we're, as a species, still grappling with learning to use. It's like we've grown an extra tail and we inadvertently lash out and knock over all of the furniture.

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

We take things that would have struck us as miraculous five years ago for granted. Like Pokémon Go would have been insane, and now it's just like, "Oh, okay."

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.