[One of my kids ]is not named after Aldous Huxley. I haven't even read Brave New World!

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.

If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?

People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.

Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money "making it " or success.

Children need teachers who have stars in their eyes themselves and who treat them with respect.

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

God is a crutch? Yeah, well, not believing in God is a coma.

That is a risk. Risk/reward, life's chances. There's always that part of it.

Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are.

The most hopeful approach to peace in Ukraine is the Minsk Agreement, which includes Moscow.

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.