The reactionary PERCENTAGE of the ELECTORATE in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy's DAY; I'd estimate it as hovering around 30 percent. A minority, but one never all that enamored of the niceties of democracy - they see themselves as fighting for the SURVIVAL of civilization, after all.

As FAR as the CUSTOMER is CONCERNED, the interface is the PRODUCT.

I THINK my PROSE reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging BULLETS and gasping for BREATH.

When SOMEONE builds a bridge, he USES ENGINEERS who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software WORKING as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.

In our system, at about 11:30 on election NIGHT, they just PUSH you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the WAY down, but you're going to HIT the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.

The first book I bought with my own money as a teenager was Martin Amis's 'Money.' You KNOW that thing when you read a book and you THINK, 'I'm GOING to have to read EVERY word ever WRITTEN by this man.'

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the OXFORD REVIEW as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I FINISHED my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was ENJOYING it so much and so on.

Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old BOY sci-fi which was about WHITE guys in space who would come up with some KIND of technological THING.