“You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.”

People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.

Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

I don’t want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That’s my advice – don’t die.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

You don’t have goggles, so you can’t see anything.

I haven’t found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way – but it has to be said the right way.

When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.