You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink.

It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within the ever-changing meta-civilisation of other beings, because, until then, during the stage when they honestly believed they might be entirely alone in existence, all solo societies were possessed of both an inflated sense of their own importance and a kind of existential terror at the sheer scale and apparent emptiness of the universe.