A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature, but, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.