Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.

My wife could turn to me and she may say, 'Why do you love me?' And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, 'Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.'

Homeopaths do not have a physical brain, but merely 'skull water' with the memory of brains.

If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.

I thought I better warn you that I am not one of those politically correct comedians, but it turns out that also I'm not really that racist, homophobic or woman hating either, so you might not notice

My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.

They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.

There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules.

We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.

I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to me and go, 'What have you been doing, you idiot? That's not the point!

Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.

The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

Life is too short to not have fun we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Discipline is remembering what you want most, not what you want now.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.