Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.

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.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.

I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels!

The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me.

I've got a lot of ham in me.

Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of the entire crew

I'm not bisexual, I'm tri-sexual. I try everything

Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.

The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.