My continuum? Blimey! For me,Black Mirror is all part of the whole.

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.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Cynicism leads to despair, while fixating on the efforts that seemed to work in the past makes an idol out of spiritual states.

Nobody's gonna convince me I can't do something till I try it." -- McMurphy

Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real.

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Children spell love with four letters: T-I-M-E.

When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now?

The evil that we know is best.

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.