I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.

I don't like the antagonism that most religions have for science, and freedom and, frankly, individuality. I do like the Dalai Lama.

For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.

There's absolutely no way that something I do on my own is going to be seen in Malaysia.

I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.