“I was somebody's boyfriend now. This would mean a lot of trial and error. But she was who I wanted to try and err with.”

“I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.”

“I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.”

“There would be a trial, of course. But I had watched a few trials in Thalia, and I had seen people a lot dumber than Hud get away with a lot worse than what he did.”

“To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.”

“Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.”