It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string

While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence, which, I believe, does make the woman.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

I actually came from the fashion side, so maybe I knew more about fashion - and music like hip-hop because I was a DJ - so it was really successful when we mixed it all up together.

Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.

Sadly, I really want to be Batman ... and I just never will be.