If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.

British press think entirely in clichés, and when they do come across creative work, they think that it must be based on something, because they don't realize that you can create things that aren't based on things.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

I've always found life quite difficult to explain to people or to myself.

The real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature. But in order to do that, we have to slice away at our egos and try to get them down to a manageable size, and then still work some practiced light meditation. So real religion is about reducing our egos, whereas all the churches are interested in is egotistical activities, like getting as many members and raising as much money and becoming as important and high-profile and influential as possible.

Other people, you know, put a latex rubber on, you know, to become sexually excited. There's so much I don't understand.