Being slagged off is good for you. It thickens the skin and strengthens the backbone.

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.

Find the window of unconditional love in your heart and liberate yourself from the prison of judgemental and conforming thoughts.

Utilizing the Power of Your Heart is the most significant choice you will make in life.

If you are a good hacker everybody knows you, But if you are a great hacker nobody knows you.

People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

I got married because it was the right time and the right thing to do.

I was always a self-conscious person.

Religion is man's attempt to reach God and Christianity is God's attempt to reach man.

Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.

THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

Being on stage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who's out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it's all over, I swear it is.