Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.

I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.

You can't just say there is a God because well, the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children. You have to account for the fact that almost all animals in the wild live under stress with not enough to eat and will die violent and bloody deaths. There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.

We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.

The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.