"An algorithm is like a recipe."

“Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.”

“I look hot and, most of all, skinny. I love the day after throwing up. I felt like a feather.”

“Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.”

“Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.”

“I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.”

“Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.”

“Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.”

“Tax cuts create more jobs and this is something we as Republicans have to do a better job of marketing.”