My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.

We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context and nuance, but when someone tries to do that in the midst of a shaming they're turned on.

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

On social media there's this thing where on many occasions, there's a single proscribed way of acting. Like if somebody dies, everyone has to say "R.I.P.! R.I.P.!" Basically they're saying, "Don't hurt me, I'm a good person."

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.