"It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy."

"They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best."

"If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in."

"I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure."

"The greatest journey starts when the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"A quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind."

"Reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."