The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.

I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but not a great poet, because if you are exposed to the greats too soon it can just squash you as a writer.

It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact.

I really enjoy taking an outdoor shower.

I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.