I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my nose and nearly pass out.….

No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have yo….

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with..

The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cook….

It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is..

The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one..

I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now..

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profit….

We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the probl….

A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible,….

I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can't get the map to get off my page, don't want people to know where I live. It is….

A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes the thing away because it's messy is never goi….

Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the sa….

ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch of problems, creative….

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of min….

Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, th….

Google says young people don't care about privacy, but when asked if they'd let their parents see their phone bills and other stuff they say no..

Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate..

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes..

That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware..

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway..