“I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fir...” — Toby Young Quote

“I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me.”

“America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.”

“People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.”

“Gamers both demand and deserve novelty. They need something new. As a game developer, one of my rules is there will be at least one thing in every game that I worked on that no one on the planet has seen before.”

“Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.”

“When I speak, I want to ensure that there is at least one person in the audience who leaves the room transformed.”