You know what? When you read a book, you're totally lost in your own private world, and society says that's a good and wonderful thing. But if you play a game by yourself, it's this weird, fucked-up, socially damaging activity.

The problem is, after a week of intense googling, we've started to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. God must feel that way all the time. I think p…

It turns out that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony - which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. I ca…

'I was in a testy mood. I'd been inside my head all day - some days that just happens. You get lost doing just one task, and suddenly you look up and it's dark…

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have r…

Get stewed: Books are a load of crap.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.