They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not function superbly... yes, beauty matters. Boy, does it matter. It is not surface, it is not an extra, it is the thing itself.

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

Homosexuals are not interested in making other people homosexuals. Homophobes are interested in making other people homophobes.