Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

I've been playing 'Doom' for some years.

Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out.

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.

I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.