The footage of today's events is literally unbelievable. The World Trade Center was one of the defining icons of our time, and the image of it collapsing into itself, shown repeatedly on news bulletins, will surely be another. It's like a bad disaster movie. We've seen these images of buildings being blown up before, but it never happens in real life. I can't get it into my head that the World Trade Center has gone. What will Manhattan look like without it? To think Jonathan and I were standing at the top of the tower just over a month ago and now there's a hole, or a pile of rubble. It doesn't make sense.

We still have no idea who is responsible, but what a gesture. What an almighty fucking brilliant gesture. And what a dreadful, wasteful, unbelievable tragedy.