I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death.

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.

France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's there for.

Nothing in this life worth achieving is easy, nor is it impossible.

Never sacrifice your family. They are the most important thing in life.

I've got this theory that there is a Volvo in any sane person's future.

If your ideas are good they rise, and if they're a bit crap they sink.

The reality is that we do not have an air traffic control system that is smart enough and technologically capable enough to be able to handle that kind of demand.

As more consumers demand less sugar, the food and beverage manufacturers will eventually come into line with what the consumers want.

Would the Element be a car for people who like hip-hop, or for people waiting for a hip-op?

As far as I can work out, no-one really loses out.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

Not “Revelation” – tis – that waitsBut our unfurnished eyes –

Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

The windy satisfaction of the tongue.

A lot of the things that we passed in the energy policy were embedded in law, and they resulted in tremendous reductions in waste of energy in all kinds of things.

I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.

I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.

Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.