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

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

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

Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly misses the most compelling part of Alan's writing, the way he develops and expresses ideas and character. Plot does not define story. Plot is the framework within which ideas are explored and personalities and relationships are unfolded.

Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where humans are not welcome and those who stay suffer eight kinds of brain damage.

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

You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns.