I'm known as being a massive dweeb who's into video games and so on.

If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

That's not something that we've gone in thinking 'Right! How are we going to examine that now?' It's just when you take a step back you see that they're actually all sort of in that mode.

Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.

I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

In summary, our world is doomed.

You are a beautiful and wonderful soul. Recognise and illuminate it.

and the look they exchanged could have melted miles of northern ice.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

My mom used to call us 'free range kids, ' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside.

In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.

Independence didn't have to be exile.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

If it weren't for the lawyers we wouldn't need them.