Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.

You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he's been replaced by someone you haven't met.

In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies

This is the most important joke I've ever heard. Niels Bohr, the founder of Quantum Physics, had a friend to dinner. As the friend left, he noticed a horseshoe nailed above Bohr's front door. He said to Bohr, accusingly, "Niels, you're a great scientist. You can't believe in superstitions." Bohr answered, "I don't, but apparently it works anyway."As with confirmation bias, we tend to lean toward superstitions that benefit us.