"I feel as though if there are parts of my life that are going undocumented then I'm just not trying hard enough. This is 2008, not 2006, "

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

"Politicians should be changed as often as nappies. And for the same reason."

"I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride."

"I hated him with all my being. He looked like the kind of man with a social conscience who would go on anti-war marches and campaign for the environment and yet here with the things that really count in this world - slight politeness - he didn't give a fig."

"When you give people hope and information and communication, it's amazing how fast they start behaving with a wisdom that exceeds the elite's."

"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."

“Language has been developed from its most primitive sources by persons so passionately concentrated upon the Ideal of selling cheese without verbal infelicity that some other points have necessarily been neglected.”

“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”

“All you have to do is make something people love, and really want, and you'll do fine.”

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”

“You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.”

“Flash is the curse of the internet - it's like trying to watch television while some idiot keeps standing up in front of you.”

“One of the things I routinely tell people is that if it's in the news, don't worry about it. By definition, 'news' means that it hardly ever happens. If a risk is in the news, then it's probably not worth worrying about. When something is no longer reported — automobile deaths, domestic violence — when it's so common that it's not news, then you should start worrying.”

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

“If you don't consider any part of your life worthy of public consumption in any form, are you really doing anything?”

“Everyone needs one vast, doomed masterpiece to dedicate their lives to; a magnum opus. The procrastination activities triggered by this should produce a lifetime’s solid, sensible work.”