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From Natalie d’Arbeloff, author of Interviews with God:

“MY APPLE PERFORMANCE

“I had written a short introductory speech, complete with jokes, to warm up the audience before switching on my PowerPoint show. I rehearsed it in front of the bathroom mirror, in the street, in the bus, in the taxi and I thought I had it down pat. But as soon as I got up on the platform, facing the cinema-style seats filling up with people who had actually come to hear me, I forgot it completely. Apart from one joke which could have done with better timing:

I see there are some…(pause)….mature faces here tonight. Like mine. Well, I want to tell you that anything you’ve heard about brain cells dying when you get older is a lie. They don’t die. They just get bored….(pause) And then they die. (pause). The way to keep them bouncy is to work on something you love.”