The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

Every time I go past a cinema and see a queue out the door, I think, look at those fools, every penny they spend is turned into profits that are used to pass laws imprisoning their own children. Can't they see?

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?