A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

In my day, the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available.