I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.

I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.

When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

There is plenty of work for love to do.

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.

Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.