I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult, and I decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces that I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.

Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.

Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of matted entanglement have generally been the badges of office of prophets whose injunction to disdain earthly things starts with soap.

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next.