It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art matters. Happiness matters. Love matters. Good matters. Evil matters. Slam the fridge door. They are the only things that matter and they are of course precisely the things that science goes out of its way to ignore.

Nudity is a deep worry if you have a body like a bin bag full of yoghurt, which I have.

there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.