Douglas R. Hofstadter Quote

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as...

The mind is matter in and of itself, but I don't mind, and it doesn't matter.

A mirror mirroring a mirror

Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!

I wish my wish would not be granted!

Why our poet chose to give his 1958 hurricane a little-used Spanish name sometimes given to parrots) instead of Linda or Lois, is not clear.

Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, sc...