I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like William James. He's actually a pragmatist.

We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic. I accept that fact. My house has thousands of books in it, and I've started to look at them completely differently. They now seem to me to be like antiquarian objects. Their use value has become negligible to me because I'm perfectly happy to read on an e-reader.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.

Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.