Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

History engineered if the facts couldn't be generally accepted.

You are the best, I accept, now leave attitude.

As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.

There's no end to the stoppage of this drama

Enterprises have customers! Ask them for feedback and you can compete with startups!

The greatest miracle is the miracle of wakefulness, to awaken from the dream of life and to see infinity everywhere, even in the finite, in the simple doings of life.

The iPhone revolutionised the mobile industry, rather like the iPod before it with the personal music player.

When you can literally Google anything, you don't feel like you have to go see it in person. You can do a lot of traveling in your bedroom, but you're not touching anything and you're not feeling it.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.