And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.

..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.

You love someone, you've got to let something go.