People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.

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

Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

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