"The simplest science book is over my head"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"Years teach us more than books"

"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth"

"I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'"

"Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science"

"Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science"

"I warn you against believing that advertising is a science"