One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.

A woman should be an illusion.

Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will, in fact, see the death of 'average,' Instead, you will see the era of you.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

A graphic designer, you know, who understands ideas and understands that ideas are what makes the world go round, could change the world with a magazine. If one talent could do it right now, and everybody would stop saying it's the death of magazines.