It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.

Think about how much skateboarding opens your eyes to see the world differently.

It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad - it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Mind chatter: a clatter of left-brain rains of doubt, worry, guilt, shame in a thunderstorm of fear. Forgive the chatter, clear your mind.

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words.

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.

I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I'll show up again

For the Atma there is no time and there is no form. It is beyond time and beyond form.

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work