Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.

Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling.

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches.

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.