It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

I take every possible side.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.