It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols? In other words—are we discovering Truth, or just wanking?

Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.

Gold is the corpse of value...

Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations.

Steal not this book for fear of shameFor on it is the owners nameAnd when you die the Lord will sayWhere is the book you stole awayAnd when you say you do not knowThe Lord will say go down below.

Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.

The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.

Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

We hope that audiences around the world embrace the picture in the same way they have the books and that hopefully Disney will allow us make another one.

Technology changes nothing.

I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.