There's something I find very satisfying about a nice ironic twist.

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.

Keep pushing with faith, hope and courage, for there is a very valuable prize waiting for you at the end of your struggle.

We may never be able to forget what has happened. We may harbor the sadness from it in our hearts forever. The former of these is unavoidable.

But despite the fact that life is full of risk, yet without taking risk, we stand a greater risk.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home.

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.

Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you.

A functioning police state needs no police.