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“It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.”
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“I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.”
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“Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics.”
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“It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you. It embeds you in society and makes you think about other people. People are certainly better at all sorts of things if they can hold a novel in their heads. It is quite a skill, but if you can't do it then you're missing out on something in life. I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.”
Source : "Philip Hensher: a life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012. 
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“Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.”
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“Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.”
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“The significance and joy in my science comes in those occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, 'So that's how God did it.' My goal is to understand a little corner of God's plan.”
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“I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.”
Source : Song: If drinkin' don't kill me, Album: I Am What I Am
