XVXVI, or 10-5-10-5-1, yielded H-E-H-E-A, which, unless she wanted to show her derisive laughter, made no sense.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

I don't know that I can say what exactly love means to me because it would be hard to put that into perspective.

I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

I'm not really a flirt; I just try to be myself.

In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.

My old coach used to say two points was two points.

I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.

I miss school. What’s wrong with me?