I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.

One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.

...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.