It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

I have very strongly this feeling that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.

No crime too small’ was never exactly Moriarty’s slogan, but the criminal genius would apply himself to minor offences if an unusual challenge was presented.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

Consciousness is not mind; it is the ground of all being, the ground of both matter and mind. Matter and mind are both possibilities of consciousness.

If you only knew all the love that I found, it's hard to keep my soul on the ground.

Iceland is 50 percent Celtic blood, from the females that they stole from us, which is why our country has only got dogs left. It was a joke! I'll never be let back in Scotland again!

If you don't read poetry how the hell can you solve equations?

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

I've never directed, but it must be humbling.

It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.