Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

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

I knew I couldn't believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook.

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.