Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.

For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.