I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

There’s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it’s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

It was the kiss of a man who had waited years for the moment, and feared that it would never come again.

When things run out of control it is because we failed to control how reality plays out. How you manage and control your reality will come to determine your life.

Write something even if it's just a suicide note.

I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.

I will not marry again. There is no need.

The closer you get to God, the more you become yourself.

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting.

God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.

I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.