To the people who've got iPhones: you just bought one, you didn't invent it!

I don't mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.

If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.

I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

Christians, you and your churches don't get to be millionaires while other people have nothing at all. They're your bloody rules! Either stick to them or abandon the faith.

I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start 10 minutes before I'm supposed to leave, and that I truly hate airports.

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

Always give away your pure love without expecting any love in return. The universe will fill your heart with an abundance of love, joy and happiness again and again.

Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.

choose to feel happy about whatever the situation is, knowing it will ultimately be to our benefit.

My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.

Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.