"I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992"

"A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning"

"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology"

"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom"

"Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick"

"The true university of these days is a collection of books"

"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting"

"Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity"

"London is a modern Babylon"

"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way"

"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students"