My Parents Were Secular. I Am An

No Collection Of People Who Are All Waiting For The Same Thing Are Capable Of Holding A Natural Conversation. Even If The Thing They Are Waiting For Is Only A Taxi.

The Internet Was Supposed To Liberate Knowledge, But In Fact It Buried It, First Under A Vast Sewer Of Ignorance, Laziness, Bigotry, Superstition And Filth And Then Beneath The Cloak Of Political Surveillance. Now...cyberspace Exists Exclusively To Promote Commerce, Gossip And Pornography. And Of Course To Hunt Down Sedition. Only Paper Is Safe. Books Are The Key. A Book Cannot Be Accessed From Afar, You Have To Hold It, You Have To Read It.

I Resent The Creation Of A World In Which Beauty Is A Reminder Of What We're Losing Rather Than A Celebration Of What We Have.

My Advice To Anyone Adapting A Novel Is That Once They've Read It And Learnt To Understand It, Then They Must Throw It Away And Never Look At It Again!

People Who Get Through Life Dependent On Other People's Possessions Are Always The First To Lecture You On How Little Possessions Count.