Not one word of the following is true

This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like a good acid trip.

If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won't bother now, I think it's a terrible, a terrible mistake.

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.