Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He can hardly read. He knows no physics or engineering to make to world real for him. No paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it. No music except television jingles. No history except tales from a desperate mother. No friends. Not one kid to give him a joke, or make him know himself more moderately. He's a modern citizen for whom society doesn't exist.

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.