A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.

It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs.

There is no point in criticizing readers for migrating online. You have to follow them and offer them something new.

I don't see the government as a beverage vending machine, where anyone who happens to be thirsty can grab a drink.

The copy price of the future is the copyright.

Perhaps profit isn't everything, but nothing works without profit. Profit is the basis for independent journalism.

One should never say never.

When you cannot achieve a majority, it's a good idea to get rid of minority stakes.

Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently.

Life has taught me that money is important, but it's not everything. For, if I have all the money in the world, but no time to enjoy, of what use is it?

The conversations of men had always been muddy rivers, the surface's roiling a reflection of what's buried, but the bottom some mysterious thing that would always be hidden.

M. de Charlus persisted in not replying. I thought I could see a smile flicker about his lips: the smile of the man who looks down from a great height on the characters and manners of lesser men.

When fear meets fear nothing good ever happens.

I have no news of my coming or passing away--the whole thing happened quicker than a breath

It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.

He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.

I don't wanna be alone forever but I can be tonight.

But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.