There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

Cheapness is a great virtue.

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.

A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.

America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me.

I had spent the whole of my savings ... on a suit for the wedding - a remarkable piece of apparel with lapels that had been modelled on the tail fins of a 1957 Coupe de Ville and trousers so copiously flared that when I walked you didn't see my legs move.