A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.

Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

I now accept that it is looking increasingly likely that Tiger Woods is, in fact, straight.

When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure the result is a Triumph. Dr Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present.

I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.