In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.

Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers.

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.

If you're someone who geniunally believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague....It's just pointless and deadly.

There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.

I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing.