Nick Harkaway

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.

The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible.

The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology.

We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.

In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.