"I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces."

"I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world."

"I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life."

"There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world."

"Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition."

"It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid."

"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."

"The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage."