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

Escape is a consumer goods like another

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

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

Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter.

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.