But now he felt as if the whole world were tipping backwards over his head, and this, he couldn’t help feeling, was a very worrying thing for the world to do.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

I wanted to join Footlights, ” he says. “I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact I wanted to be John Cleese and it took me some time to realise that the job was in fact taken.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

Block out all the negative energy, and just love.

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.

When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities.

I'm 100 percent impartial. I'm - my responsibility is to manage this primary nominating contest neutrally and fairly.

It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.

Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no activity through which it should not happen.

Ride it when you retire.