A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.

Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.

I love my BlackBerry, I love my Apple Mac, I love technology.

Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."

Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.

Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.

Thank you for trusting me.

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.

When I present, I cheat. I only talk about things I care about.