People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.

I found it all about as arousing as a Tupperware party.

Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

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

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

I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look forward to. Zilch, zero, zip-all, sweet lipperty-pipperty nothing. The only thought that will give me the energy to carry on is that someone has a life which would be diminished by my departure from it.