I want vasopressin, washed caffeine, Jumpstart, ginkgo biloba, guarana, and any intelligence enhancer introduced in the last five years.

Cheap! But not as cheap as your girlfriend.

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

Stephen King says that if you forget an idea, then it can't have been any good. He means he, not you. You are not Stephen King. Do not attempt to emulate Stephen King at home.

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

Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're going to be spending the next few years doing little else. This is a thing you do at a table with a notebook and a keyboard, and there's no getting away from it. Put in the hours. You don't get to turn off 'being a writer.'

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