The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.

There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.

When in doubt, resort to animation.