I loved this place when I was a kid. I still love it, but when I was a kid I'd take the bus down here and spend all day long reading in this room.

Time is your cathedral. You know the present is only a pretty illusion in the minds of men. And I think you know that nothing has ever passed away, not entirely.

A man with no imagination can never inspire others.

Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For one thing, Aristotle and Aquinas never watched television.

I'm an agnosto-theist. I cross myself on airplanes. I pray when I'm sick. When you're sick I'll keep you in my thoughts; when I'm sick, I'm entreating a higher power.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

I think those little laundry detergent capsules are an amazing thing to have.

Minds were made for blowing.

I love India, Russia and touring has made me many friends abroad.

I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.