Every interview I do, when I'm asked about scientific issues, I say I'm not a climate scientist. I'm just giving you the informed layman's perspective... .

[A]s previous studies have concluded, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are probably thickening rather than melting.

The policies being promoted are insane... If you believe energy poverty is a good thing, you should support controls on carbon emissions. But most of the world disagrees with that.

What kind of country has this become? Decent people can’t do anything without being watched.

Necessity knows no law.

Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a play unless he knew what he was writing about.

It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.

John Cryan and I worked together at UBS, and I think John is one smart, hardworking individual, and I wouldn't bet against John. I wish him well.

Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.