99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.

I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long time, and my wife is English and my kids all have English accents, and every voice I hear is English. I've never intentionally changed my accent at all.

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.