“If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.”

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Define yourself by what you love.

It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.

We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.

Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea.

You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.

Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.

How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?

Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.

Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.

I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

Who’s the world going to revolve around now?

Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.

If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logicall.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.

My wife says to do the dishes, and I’m like, ‘Yes, baby. I can clean up.’

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.

I’m not the king in my own house. I have to wash the dishes and take out the trash and say, ‘Yes, baby.’ I’m 6-foot-5, but I kind of walk around hunched over.

Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles.

I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that’s out of this world. I’ll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn’t have to be between Thai and Mexican every night.

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.