On getting mugged: I carry around months and months of receipts. I need a mugger who can file my VAT returns.

I think the English are bipolar. 'We're the greatest, no we're terrible' - that's a constant English struggle. Crime is down, there's little poverty - yet it's always the worst time to have lived here.

Doesn't it get on my nerves when people say science doesn't know everything. Science knows it doesn't know everything otherwise it would stop. Just becuase science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy-tale appeals to you.

If we were truly created by God, why do we occasionally bite the insides of our mouths?

I'm an appalling cook. I can just about create a glass of orange juice and a ham-and-cheese sandwich.

On getting mugged: I carry around months and months of receipts. I need a mugger who can file my VAT returns.

Science "knows" it doesn't know everything, otherwise it would stop.