There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can't.

That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.

Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.

All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.

This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride - he's my dad - and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go.

My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.