Quotes

I've learned from my mistakes and I'm sure I can repeat them exactly.

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.

I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

Being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with the judges. So all in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner.

I could've been a judge, but I never had the Latin... I never had the Latin to get through the rigorous judging exams. They're very rigorous, the judging exams, very rigorous indeed. They're noted for their rigor. People come out of them saying, "My God, what a rigorous exam!" And so I become a miner instead. I managed to get through the mining exams. They're not very rigorous. There's no rigor involved really. There's a complete lack of rigor involved in the mining exams. They only ask you one question. They say, "Who are you?" And I got 75 percent on that.