I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.

The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.