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.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.