“The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace.”

“Spec = asking the world to have sex with you and promising dinner date to one lucky winner.”

“Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.”

“Write from the soul, not from some notion about what you think the marketplace wants.The market is fickle; the soul is eternal'.”

“I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.”

“You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.”

“Tessio Zizmo had been a virgin when she married Milton Stephanides at the age of 22. Their engagement,which coincided with the Second World War, had been a chaste affair. My mother was proud of the way she'd managed to simultaneously kindle and snuff my father's flame,keeping him at a low burn for the duration of a global cataclysm.... She didn't surrender until after Japan had.”