People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with.

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.

When the sleep appears like a ghost, all the reality disappears!

Love is the ocean. We are all the waves.

Actors are frightened little children.

The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,” she told me, “he looks slippery as soap.

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound... that's all good.

When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]

To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.