I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

Pirates could happen to anyone.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.

Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress