I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me.

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children

Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.

People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.

I think faith in each other is much harder than faith in God...

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.