I'm conflicted because I like being in deserts. I find them sort of cleansing, but there's another part of me that hates dust. And I particularly hate dust in cars, so it's a huge conflict going on there.

I always said it was a privilege to end up on the television. It wasn't my ambition; I fell into editing magazines and writing about cars, and then I ended up on the telly.

Justice should not admit a public's thirst for pure revenge.

I hope we're not barred from Argentina - I'd quite like to go back for another ham and cheese sandwich.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

Chemistry was my college interest. Cooking is about chemistry.

Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.

I think the intuitive processes of discovery are the same, very much the same, in the arts as in the sciences.