I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his famous remark about when a man is tired of London he is tired of life...I can't dispute it.

There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.

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

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.