My secret is that I have never thought there is a secret to anything in life. Passion. Love. Drive. Work. Work. Work. Dull but true.

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?

The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not they are loaded, you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time.

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

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.

Not one word of the following is true