That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

If you're not fascinated by Korea yet, you damn well should be. The most innovative country on earth deserves a hilarious and poignant account on the order of Euny Hong's The Birth of Korean Cool. Her phat beats got Gangnam Style and then some.

Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years.

Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck.

It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.

I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.

I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.