Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else.
A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn’t there.
The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not they are loaded, you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time.
As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
Hold the newsreader’s nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.
I certainly don’t want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else.
People still don’t get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.
One of the reasons I love the online world is that although that exists in abundance you can choose absolutely which part of the online world you want to live in. You can make your own kingdom in that sense.
I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
I’ve always been aware of my sexuality, but I never quite knew what it meant...
Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
My parents were marvelously educated people.
Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
My father was all brain and little heart.
You’ll often hear the phrase “science doesn’t know everything.” Well, of course it doesn’t know everything. But just because science doesn’t know everything doesn’t mean that it knows nothing.