People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.