Generally speaking, by the time a subculture such as steampunk secures the attention of major media, resulting in extensive coverage of the craze, said phenomenon is already on the way out.
I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.
The last watch I wore felt like a handcuff. When I need to know the time, I check my cell phone.
I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.
In my mum's day, you needed to be beautiful for a very short time to catch your man. It didn't start at six and go on until you're 75, right?
Personally I estimate about a third of my time is spent on author events, social media and traditional publicity.
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time.
The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.
I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.
The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.
If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.
One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.
The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.
The last thing businessmen want to do is sit in a room filled with other businessmen. A room full of money is a pretty boring sight - unless it's yours, of course.
The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock.
Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.
Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.
As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn't treat this phenomenon as something bad.
