Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating it can only be an expression of our humanity.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

Everybody counts—the Happy ones Count their Blessings and the sad ones Count their Troubles.

Make up your mind! Whom you shall serve?

With no action to nourish it, your dream becomes a fantasy.

I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

My favourite setting are England, because I was born here and love it, and Spain, because it's fabulous and so romantic.

My mother was in advertising and worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent. That instills in you a sense of determination.

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

As everyone knows I've got a passion for horses.

Family is what really runs through my head. I'm usually bombarded with tons of phone calls, but I'm usually bombarded with love as well.