I really don't want to sound like overly negative or critical of the Internet in general because I'm actually really quite pro-technology.

Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a Quaker meetinghouse and were missionaries at one point.

Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.

I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.

I was more aware initially of shows like Tales of the Unexpected. And the BBC used to put on a lot of one-off, bizarre television plays.