I'm glad Carol Vorderman has left Countdown, I mean it's not like she did much. She was effectively just an autistic shelf-stacker.

There are only two conditions where you’re allowed to wake up a woman on a lie-in: it’s snowing or the death of a celebrity.

Normally you have news, weather and travel.....but not on snow day, on snow day news is weather is travel.

They had to ask spain I think, they've had to say to Spain, can you lend us some stuff for the roads, and it's Gordon Brown phoning up going 'pass the salt'

So you're mother? Nice to put a name to a face.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Every man sees his wife like an angel

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.

When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.

I don't buy the 'at 60 it's great to have kids' thing. I don't buy the line that has been thrown down - 'You can have a kid at any time.' That doesn't mean you should.

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.