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.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'