For some time now, I have been encouraging people to ask themselves why things look the way they do.

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.

I'm a big fan of the digestive system.

If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence

He's right. I can't deny it. I am the reason Day lost everything that matters to him.

In the ghetto of Genre, anything goes, man. When you live in the gutter it doesn’t matter if you’re filthy. In theory anyway.

Any real Bob Dylan fan would sleep with Jonah Lehrer.

Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a positive model.

Science probes; it does not prove.

Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

I am a great fan of Manchester United.