There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

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.

I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else.

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

I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.