We are a plague on the Earth.

They'd [Silver Lake residents] rather have the plague come over them than be in the city of Leesburg,

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.

The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary.

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.