I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.

If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language

I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage.

I'm really glad I'm not on Twitter. Because I'd have to be answering things that I didn't really know anything about, and I'd rather just wait for the dust to settle and then say something.

I'm online, therefore I am.

My grandad always said, "You should never judge a book by its cover." And it's for that reason that he lost his job as chair of the British Book Cover Awards panel.

As a reformed procrastinator, I'm now getting things done in the first 10 seconds of the last minute.

I can't seem to recall if I've ever had amnesia before.

My partner and I were going to renew our vowels, but the consonants revolted.

Is it a lucky break if you get run over by an ambulance?

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

In the morning, a cup of love, kindness and sunshine make my day bright and happy.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water.

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.

I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, 'Where's your son?' or 'My mother loves you'.

I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

Make certain decisions only once.

Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.