Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.

I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

Time is how you spend your love.

…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith