Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.

Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.

Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.

I am not man or beast; I am bibliosexual, and a seedy bibliosexual who haunts the streets, laden with carrier bags held by blistered fingers, stooping under the weight of the rucksack that has brought on sciatica and a Dickensian demeanour.

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.

I don't have any hobbies because my working job is my hobby. What I do is I spend my whole time looking through telescopes and having brain scans and buying books about various different ideas and I just sit around, that's my life.

I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas.