We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean.

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of surprise. I never know what is coming next. The phrase that sounds in the head changes when it appears on the page. Then I start probing it with a pen, finding new meanings. Sometimes I burst out laughing at what is happening as I twist and turn sentences. Strange business, all in all. One never gets to the end of it. That’s why I go on, I suppose. To see what the next sentences I write will be.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.