Avoid people who say they know the answer. Keep the company of people who are trying to understand the question.

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

I love fishing. It's transcendental meditation with a punchline.

I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.

Well, the film's not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it's pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies. I had never read anything like this until I was doing the film, but Mark [Joffe, the director] and people showed me stuff where, like a flood, it mattered where the water came from. If you're flooded from above, you get the money; if you're flooded from below, you don't. What's that about?

Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.