People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around—the music and the ideas. (Feb. 13, 1992)

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it. 5 May 2006.