"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."

"Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'"

"What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: 'Why is it so dark in here?'"

"Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think."

"Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time."

"Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be."

"The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before."

"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are."

"The more you know, the less you need."

"A kind word is like a spring day."

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."