I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.

Take three different Thai writers and ask them to extrapolate their county's future, and one hopes that you'll get three very different - but all deeply honest - versions.

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.

When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.

I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.

At some point, you realize you can't provide a perfectly monolithic description of a foreign culture's future any more than you can provide a monolithic description of your own hometown's future. Your choices about what to emphasize and what to leave out make all the difference, and ultimately, your fingerprints and biases and viewpoints are going to be all over the story.