If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery.

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.

Take a picture not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals

Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're doing things because they're right, because they live by a moral code.

Famous people are above the law.

People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.