What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.

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.

Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.

The death of a dog may not by some be regarded as a tragedy, but some dogs are more worthy than some men, and can be more justly mourned.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

Young people can be annoying, let's face it. But they can also be really refreshing to be around and full of enthusiasm.

The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.

I am convinced that the attitude we cultivate in advance may well determine how suffering will affect us when it does strike.

Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.

Be not afraid of greatness.