I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.

Jim Henson was an absolute genius.

Christians, you and your churches don't get to be millionaires while other people have nothing at all. They're your bloody rules! Either stick to them or abandon the faith.

Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you are.

Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock.