There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.

Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.

It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.

Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different.