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

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

The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

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

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy.