I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

My eyebrows could do with a trim.

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

Sorry I'm late, I'm afraid I got lost on the path of life-Kakashi Sensei

Stars are out and there is seaenough beneath the glistening earthto bear me toward the futurewhich is not so dark. I see.

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.

I was interested in politics since the age of 14.

The fear of hell is the basis for the Christian faith.

One day offices will be a thing of the past

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.