The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled.

My son is becoming me - just a silly, silly prankster guy.

Divine love, agape, is self-sacrificing love, which sounds difficult, as it is, and not very attractive. If the best image we have of love is of a man who's been tortured and hung upon a cross to die an excruciating death, this is something that human beings find very, very hard to understand as love. But it is the highest Christian image of love.

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I'm animated.

I don't think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world's face. That's all private.

When you're supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you're talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you're filming.