Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.

"Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age" was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed OUT of the Stone Age.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.