I'm quite geeky and I'm very much into video games and technology and stuff like that.

If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

That's not something that we've gone in thinking 'Right! How are we going to examine that now?' It's just when you take a step back you see that they're actually all sort of in that mode.

Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.

I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

In summary, our world is doomed.

Once you laugh with a person? That person is your friend.

God is able to do what we can’t do.

It was the kind of place where hard drinkers came to wrestle their demons while fallen angels drank alone in dark smoky corners.

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

I love The Golden Girls. I've watched recently, and it's sort of insane there's a chef that they're always referring to as "fancy" - the pilot's kind of a mess.

In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.

Design is the underlying skill that activates innovation. If you want to innovate, you've got to design.

A fight forms a powerful and strange bond between men.

I liked to play dress-up.