I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.

I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of course not; you care about your friends, above all your children, any grandchildren. But ... what if the deal calls for the planet to be poisoned a thousand years later? We feel strong obligations to generations in the near future - should we not feel the same way about our children's great-grandchildren and generations beyond them?

Manuel will show you to your rooms - if you're lucky.

Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works.

I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.