The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it.

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

If I was a worrier I'd worry, but not being a worrier I'm just sort of confused and pissed off.

There's a good-feel factor about Sheffield Wednesday

I am ready to be alone.

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

When in doubt, figure it out. That's the redneck way.

In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

Capitalism is in crisis.

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.