But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

The British fans are liable to suddenly be talking to you about something that you don't know how you got into the conversation. I think it's something to do with the fact that they've been watching you for so many years sort of you telling your story.

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

I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.

What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.