Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener.

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it.

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterprises no one now can understand.

Go. Go to your beautiful dances, your beautiful ceremonies. And we will bury our dead.

When I'm able to bring together the two worlds that I love so much - film and TV - is a documentary feature, it's nirvana!

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.

I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as jazz.

When I design menswear, it is important for me to consider where you wear the clothes and what purpose they serve.

Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space regularly.

I'm still the king of me.

I am growing to love DC.This [Washington] is a beautiful city. I think every citizen should come see their capital. A lot of the museums are free, there are restaurants that are reasonably priced.

Most women can't handle the reality of what comes with being with me. It takes a very secure woman to be backstage at a concert hearing 15,000 females going crazy.

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.