But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.

I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes.