You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed pre afterlife, a crammed life, so to me the most important thing is you know as Kipling put it. [...] To fill every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made.

I've always been aware of my sexuality, but I never quite knew what it meant.

If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won't bother now, I think it's a terrible, a terrible mistake.