If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.

Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.

By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit of sidewalk-scraping, infect myself with something good and contagious, then go out and stamp on some cops. It was great, being nine years old.