Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.

A good banana daiquiri is hard to come by. I've only ever found one place in this country that makes a proper one, and that's in Leeds.

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.