Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.

Ideas are self-replenishing, like snot

Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people's earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive

The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief.

In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.

What’s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome your corpse, trap clicks and you’re in heaven, bored rigid

The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.