To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.

What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?

Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.

[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.

I have always worried about things more than I should.

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.