Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.

People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.

Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.