'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me.

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a "political exile," as he calls himself.

When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.

I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.

The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.

Thus, a vision of the whole gradually grew for me that was nourished by the various experiences and realizations I had encountered along my theological path. I rejoiced to be able to say something of my own, something new and yet completely within the faith of the Church. The feeling of aquiring a theological vision that was ever more clearly my own was the most wonderful experience of those years.