Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music… and of aviation.
Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world [chess] championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
“We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.