I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.

Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.

There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.

This summer I have discovered something totally useless.

Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind.

When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.

I would send back a statement: ‘None.’

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab.

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966.

Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!

I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.

I do believe my view has evolved.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

Seinfeld has his way of telling jokes - and I'm not comparing myself to Seinfeld, his genius is observing the small details of everyday life and finding humor in it.