'By groans and various sounds and various movements of parts of my body I would endeavour to express the intentions of my heart to persuade people to bow to my will. But I had not the power to express all that I wanted nor could I make my wishes understood by everybody.'

You got me into the habit of sleeping on one side of the bed. I haven't gotten back out of it since.

'Nietzsche wanted to be, and was, the Plato of his own Socrates.'

'But it’s Beavis who sees things most clearly.'

Music saves; but being able to play your music loud saves you more surely.

'Have you practiced so long to learn to read?'

When I was a child, I was asked who my hero was. I didn't have a hero but felt somewhat embarrassed not to have one when it appeared to be expected of me.

Eventually I decided that I would say that Steve Wozniak was my hero.

He wasn't, but he seemed like a good hero to have, if you had to have one.

'an ample experience of dereliction'

'… the man who is to give you the poison has been telling me for some time… that I should warn you to talk as little as possible. People get heated when they talk, he says, and one should not be heated when taking the poison, as those who do must sometimes drink it two or three times.'

'Take no notice of him; only let him be prepared to administer it twice or, if necessary, three times.'