I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.
“Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.”
“There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.”